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Knesset Defeats No-Confidence Motion on Ending Support for
Foreign Yeshiva Students and Reducing Kollel Stipends
A majority of 57 MKs defeated a no-confidence motion in the
Knesset plenum early this week filed by United Torah Judaism
and HaIchud HaLeumi-NRP regarding the government's decision
to stop support funding for yeshiva students from abroad and
reduce support funding for kollel students.
The school transportation budget for the general sector
amounts to NIS 900 million ($230 million) — NIS 600
million from the Education Ministry and another NIS 300
million from the local authorities — while the
transportation budget for the chareidi educational system
totals a mere NIS 25 million ($6 million), with Chinuch
Atzmai accounting for NIS 21 million ($5 million), even
though today the chareidi education system comprises 20
percent of Israeli schools.
Agricultural Minister Shalom Simhon announced this week
before the Knesset Economic Committee the renewal of
agricultural imports for shomrei Shevi'is.
This week Yisrael Beiteinu tabled a bill that would require
anyone applying for Israeli citizenship to take an oath (or
declaration) of loyalty to the State.
The Jerusalem District Court has postponed the decision on
unfreezing proceedings against the Heftziba Group.
The accelerated growth characterizing the Israeli economy in
the past three years is not expected to continue former Bank
of Israel governor Dr. David Klein told chareidi financial
reporters as the Meitav Investment House launched marketing
activity in the chareidi sector.
The Importance of Tefilloh in Our Day and Age — And
Yitzchok Prayed . . . Excerpted from a Collection of Commentaries from Otzros
HaTefilloh by HaRav Avraham Nishri
There is Nothing without Prayer
A fundamental principle of creation is that nothing is given
without prayer. "Now no tree of the field was yet on the
earth, neither did any herb of the field yet grow, because
Hashem G-d had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was
no man to work the soil" (Bereishis 2:5).
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