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Education Ministry Allows Students at Government Schools to Pray
By Eliezer Rauchberger
Any student attending a government school who elects to pray will be allowed to do so in the future, Education Ministry official Mr. Shmuel Gross told a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee convened to discuss the issue.
Government Forum for Battle Against Antisemitism Presents Worrisome Report
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
Jewish Agency Chairman Zev Bielsky and Welfare Minister Yitzhak Herzog, who is in charge of Diaspora Affairs, presented the Antisemitism Report for 2007 at this week's cabinet meeting.
Knesset Committee Discusses State of Har Hazeisim
By Eliezer Rauchberger
"During the course of renovation work at Har Hazeisim, which the Sephardic chevra kadisha, with state funding, has been working on for a long time, recently a large burial plot, which includes a number of well-known rabbonim, has been uncovered," Religious Services Minister MK Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) told a Knesset plenum in response to an urgent question raised by MK Nissim Ze'ev. "The plot was covered over by infrastructure work during the period of Jordanian rule in [East] Jerusalem."
Rabbi Kanievsky Visits Building Site of Kosher Electricity Plant in Modi'in Illit
By A. Cohen
A throng of local rabbonim and activists accompanied HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlita when he paid a visit to the site of the kosher power plant to be built outside of the city. During the gathering HaRav Kanievsky blessed those involved in the task, adding, "May the Council Head have the merit to quickly complete the construction of the power plant for [the production of] electricity without any concerns of chilul Shabbos." The initiative is being carried out with the encouragement and guidance of gedolei Yisroel and led by Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita.
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