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6 Cheshvan 5768 - October 18, 2007 | Mordecai Plaut, director

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Knesset Defeats No-Confidence Motion Filed by UTJ Following Budget Cuts
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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. De Hartoch to Be Tried for Attacking Public Servant
By Yechiel Sever

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.

Government to Raise Allotments for "Second Circle" Holocaust Survivors
By G. Lazer

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).

Thousands of Darkei Rochel Seminary Students on Strike
By Yechiel Sever

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.

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