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New Classrooms for Chareidi Schools in Jerusalem; Bnei Brak
As final preparation for the 5770 school year are being put into place the Education Department at the Jerusalem Municipality released figures showing 60 classrooms are set to open at chareidi schools, including 56 classrooms formerly used by government schools that are being transferred due to diminishing enrollment. The budget for chareidi education is being increased by NIS 16 million ($4 million) and the renovations budget for talmudei Torah is being doubled in order to strengthen "exempt" institutions.
The Chareidi Education Department at the Beit Shemesh Municipality is hard at work laying preparations for the city's 16,000 students enrolled in chareidi schools, compared to 10,000 in the city's government and government-religious schools.
The Jerusalem District Court issued a comprehensive injunction against Hebrew University, banning it from selling two dormitory buildings on Rechov Stern in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood. The court order was issued following a petition by the attorneys representing an organization that is suing the university for canceling the tender illegally.
Efforts by the Committee for the Preservation of the Character of the Jewish People to inspect and report on kedushoh and tznius conditions at various hotels proved largely successful during bein hazmanim.
During a visit to Modi'in Illit this week Trade and Employment Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer told Mayor Rabbi Yaakov Guterman that his ministry would honor his request to open an Employment Services office in the city.
A monthly magazine published in the Kurdish autonomous region of Northern Iraq caused a major stir recently when it called on Jews to return to their native land.
A Jewish resident of the Upper Galilee was arrested this week on suspicion of spray-painting the words, "Death to chareidim" the night before he was taken into custody.
Chareidim and traditionalists in Rosh Ha'ayin are fortifying their stiff campaign after the municipality refused to honor a demand by rabbonim to cancel a distasteful event.
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