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NEWS
Finance Ministry General Accountant Calls for Fewer
Inspections of Yeshivas
By Eliezer Rauchberger
The Finance Ministry General Accountant wrote a letter to
Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman
pledging to reduce inspections and audits of yeshivas from
their current level of four per year to one every three
years. Four per year is an unusually high level that is not
found in any other area. The intense inspections have
confounded the critics who expected to uncover massive fraud
but found nothing significant.
In exchange for this commitment, the Finance Committee
Chairman had the committee approve government requests to
transfer budget funds to the Education Ministry, including a
request to cut nearly NIS 2 million earmarked for those
inspections and audits of yeshivas.
Previously the Chairman had delayed approving the funding
transfers associated with the Education Ministry to protest
the Ministry's decision to cut close to NIS 2 million from
the yeshiva educational budget in order to increase the
inspections by hiring an external accountant to audit
yeshivas, kollelim and Torah institutions. He also
expressed his opposition to the exhausting audits and
investigations of yeshivas in contrast to institutions of
higher education, where no audits are conducted.
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