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Knesset Finance Committee to Address Discrimination Against Yeshiva and Seminary Students

By Tzvi Sofer

The Knesset Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a special meeting to address discrimination against yeshiva and seminary students by the Transportation Ministry, Egged and Dan for not allowing them to purchase six-month and one-year student bus passes at a 60 percent discount.

A pilot project in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv provides university students substantial discounts of up to 60 percent on bus rides in the three large cities and their environs. Meanwhile yeshiva, kollel and seminary students, who often use public transportation on a daily basis, must pay full fare.

In Jerusalem alone the majority of bus passengers are chareidim who spend hundreds of millions of shekels per year on fares — money that goes to the public transportation companies and the State.

Following reports of the discrimination MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, asked MK Moshe Kahlon, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, to hold an urgent committee meeting to assess the issue, in which areas the project is being conducted and which segments of the population benefit.

 

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