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Bagatz Denies NRP Petition to Reduce Kollel Funding

By Betzalel Kahn

The High Court denied a petition filed by several national- religious high schools against the Education Ministry's decision to set criteria regarding the amount of funding provided to yeshiva students and avreichei kollelim.

The petitioners sought to alter the Education Ministry's policy of providing avreichim larger stipends than yeshiva students. The High Court denied the petition, saying only the State has the right to determine which public institutions are eligible to receive support funding and as such it has the right to set the criteria and stipend levels and can even make changes in the middle of the fiscal year.

"We are sufficiently convinced that in determining support levels the distinction drawn by the respondent between yeshiva students and kollel students is relevant," wrote the deciding judges. "The yeshivas are Torah institutions in which unmarried yeshiva students—whose parents, as a rule, provide for them—study. The kollelim, on the other hand, are Torah institutions in which the students are married and head families. They receive financial support from the kollel to provide for themselves and their families. This difference between the institutions justifies the higher level of support the kollelim receive."

The High Court also rejected the appellants' demand to dismiss Yechezkel Shinelson, the Education Minister's advisor. The appellants claimed he lacked the qualifications needed for the job, but the judges rejected the demand based on the State's claim he is not currently employed by the Education Ministry.

 

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