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Government Earmarks NIS 103 Million for Shmittah Preparations

By Betzalel Kahn

The government earmarked a sum of NIS 103 million ($24 million) to make preparations for Shmittah, which falls next year, 5768.

The funding allocation includes NIS 10 million to operate the Otzar Beis Din, NIS 30 million to support shomer Shmittah farmers, NIS 18 million for wheat growers, NIS 15 million for fruit tree nurseries and NIS 13 million to introduce hydroponic cultivation in greenhouses. These funds will be provided by the Agricultural Ministry.

Disappointingly, the Prime Minister's Office will also allocate NIS 7 million to the Chief Rabbinate for Shmittah based on the heter mechirah, which was prohibited by the leading poskim of the past generations.

Meanwhile the government decided that Agriculture Minister Shalom Simchon and Yitzchak Cohen, the minister in the Prime Minister's Office in charge of the religious councils, would set up a work team headed by the Agriculture Ministry and, with the participation of the Chief Rabbinate's Budget Department, set the regulations and criteria for various support programs.

 

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