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NEWS
Yeshivos Can Arrange for Their Students to Receive
ID Cards
by Betzalel Kahn
As a result of the efforts of Rabbi Yitzchok Boruch
Weinberger, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, a new and more
convenient arrangement for applying for the ID cards of
yeshiva students over the age of sixteen has been made.
By the time they are eighteen, Israeli children all
have an official ID card (teudat zehut).
According to the new arrangement, yeshiva secretaries
will collect the applications of students and then send
them to the Population Registry all together. Until
now, students had to go to the Population Registry on
their own.
In an earlier letter to Interior Minister Eli Yishai in
the name of parents of yeshiva students and institution
directors, Rabbi Weinberger noted that an arrangement
for school secretaries to apply for the ID cards of
students without their having to come to the Population
Registry, is in effect only in non-religious state
schools. "I do not understand why yeshiva students, who
study Torah all day, are forced to waste precious time
and to personally go down to the offices of the
Population Registry where the atmosphere is
incompatible with the spirit of the education they
receive in the yeshivos hakedoshos," Rav
Weinberger noted in his letter.
At a meeting held as a result of Rabbi Weinberger's
appeal, the Interior Minister's representative said
that Rabbi Weinberger's request was approved, and that
institutions who want to be included in the new
arrangement should apply to the various Population
Registry offices throughout the country.
The new arrangement will spare yeshiva students from
going down to the offices of the Population Registry,
and will enable them to apply for ID cards through the
secretaries of their respective yeshivos. These
requests must be signed, and accompanied by two
passport type photographs.
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