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Knesset Defeats No-Confidence Motion Filed by UTJ
Following Budget Cuts
With a majority vote of 56 MKs from the coalition against 21
MKs from the opposition and three abstentions, on Monday a
Knesset plenum rejected a joint no-confidence motion filed by
UTJ and HaIchud HaLeumi-NRP due to "the danger of destroying
the Torah institutions and yeshivas in light of the
unprecedented cuts in their respective budgets."
Atty. Amnon De Hartoch, formerly head of support funding at
the Justice Ministry, will be held trial for attacking a
public servant. The decision was made by Commander Yochanan
Danino, head of the police's Department of Investigations and
Intelligence, who adopted the position of the Legal Charges
Department.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On
and Welfare Minister Yitzhak Herzog held a joint press
conference with Noah Peleg, chairman of the Center for
Organizations of Holocaust Survivors. The four presented a
government aid program for poor elderly people, including
numerous Holocaust survivors, which would increase the
allotments they are entitled to by NIS 1.5 billion ($370
million).
Some two thousand high school students went on strike at the
beginning of the week at Darkei Rochel Seminary in Jerusalem
based on orders from the Committee for a Permanent Solution
for the Seminary Facility due to the lack of classroom space
for the students.
The Chazon Ish on Educational Issues Excerpts from a book by Rav Zvi Yabrov
"You cannot educate a child with lies"
Rebbetzin R. Kaufman was well-known in Bnei Brak for her
devotion to children with educational problems. She had a G-d-
given talent to deal with problems of this nature, and the
Chazon Ish would sometimes refer children to her.
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