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60 percent of Jewish Culture Funding Transferred

by Betzalel Kahn

On the last day of the 2005 fiscal year Jewish culture organizations received 60 percent of the funding earmarked for them in the 2005 budget. The prolonged delay in the transfer of funding was the result of an ongoing debate between the Education Ministry and Attorney Amnon de Hartog, head of the Support Department at the Justice Ministry.

The state budget called for over NIS 50 million, along with another NIS 6 million from the coalition agreement with UTJ. The remainder of the funding will be paid in 2006 after the final criteria for the transfer of funding to Jewish cultural organizations is formulated.

Two other areas of the budget were left without funding at the end of the fiscal year: talmudei Torah and busing to and from Chinuch Atzmai schools. Major efforts are underway to solve the latter issue within the next few days to save the busing system from total collapse. Last week Chinuch Atzmai principals gathered for an urgent meeting at which they warned the schools could collapse without funding for transportation.

Meanwhile budget funds for talmudei Torah are being withheld due to a directive by Attorney Amnon de Hartog of the Justice Ministry. On Sunday PM Ariel Sharon held a large meeting to try to solve the problem of funding for the talmudei Torah and school buses.

The majority of the NIS 290 promised to UTJ in last year's budget agreements was transferred to its designated purposes— kindergartens, seminaries, dormitories and some of the Chinuch Atzmai busing.

Funding for the yeshivas and kollelim, a total of NIS 140 million, was also transferred in full, including tens of millions of additional shekels defined as differentials and surpluses based on UTJ's agreement with the Likud one year ago that all of the differences and surpluses of the yeshivas would be transferred to all of the yeshivas.

 

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