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NEWS
Poverty Report: 1.53 million Poor in Israel with 714,000
children; Rabbi Ravitz: Money Taken from Children to
Wealthy
by M Plaut, G. Kleiman, Eliezer Rauchberger and Yated Ne'eman
Staff
The number of poor in Israel rose from 1.43 million to 1.53
million, according to the 2004 Poverty Report, published by
the National Insurance Institute (NII). Israel had 714,000
poor children and 394,000 poor families in 2004.
Budget Cuts Could Lead to Tuition Increases at Talmudei
Torah
By Betzalel Kahn
Hundreds of talmud Torah (cheder) principals
from around the country joined chareidi MKs and public
figures for an emergency meeting at the Talmudei Torah Union
Center in light of the continued cuts in talmud Torah
budgets. An astounding figure was revealed during the
nationwide gathering: approximately 40 percent of Jerusalem
parents are unable to pay the tuition due to financial
strain.
2006 Budget Contains Further Reductions in Children's
Allowances
By G. Lazer
The chareidi public is furious over the Finance Ministry's
plan to deepen the erosion of Children's Allowances. Recently
essential components of the 2006 budget and details of the
new decrees to be imposed on the public as part of efforts to
cut government spending were provided.
Doubts Surrounding 2006 Budget
By R. Collins
The 2005 budget was approved just a few months ago at the
last moment. The budget was supposed to be approved by the
end of 2004 but the shaky state of the coalition during those
months made approving the budget difficult and holding early
elections was an imminent threat until the budget was finally
passed by a hair.
Police Captured on Film Encouraging Private Security
Guards to Beat Avreichim
By Betzalel Kahn
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni is demanding Deputy Internal Security
Minister Yaakov Edery order an investigation to try a group
of private security guards who ruthlessly beat
avreichim protesting grave desecration by the Trans-
Israel Highway Co. This is the second time in recent months
the police have promised to take strong measures against
violent guards but have failed to take any action.
Bais Yaakov Summer Program Brings Thousands of Seminary
Students to Old City
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
Mifalei Kayitz, a summer program for seminary students in
Eretz Yisroel, was founded by an association of US
benefactors headed by HaRav Dovid Weinberger, the rov of
Shaarei Tefilloh in Lawrence, New York, to provide for the
social and spiritual needs of Beis Yaakov girls during the
long summer break.
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