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General Accountant Delays General Support Payments, Including Kollelim and Torah Institutions

By Eliezer Rauchberger

Finance Ministry General Accountant Yaron Zelicha issued instructions not to transfer general support payments due to the delay in approving the overall state budget. This would delay support payments for yeshivas and other Torah institutions starting January 2005.

The Accountant General issued this order due to the fact the yeshiva budget is defined as support and not part of the budgetary funding. Transfers defined as support may not be executed until the 2005 budget receives final approval since according to the law if the budget is not approved by the beginning of the civil-calendar year funding is supposed to be distributed on a monthly basis according to the previous year's budget. Therefore the funds for chareidi education are outside of this definition, even though in character they are like most things that are within the budget since they deal with a basic government service.

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni said, "We will make every effort to have the yeshiva budget transferred on time. But since the funding is provided, among other things, for paying salaries and is given on a monthly basis based on the number of students, it should not be delayed, as the General Accountant instructed regarding the issue of the general support payments."

 

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