Degel HaTorah chairman Moshe Gafni warned on Tuesday of a significant decrease in yeshiva funding this month, accusing the Attorney General’s legal advisers of blocking the use of funds that have already been legally approved by both the government and the Knesset.
Gafni said that the funding freeze affects recipients who have no connection whatsoever to the draft issue, calling the situation “an absurdity that will not continue.”
He explained that the funding cut does not apply to those obligated to enlist in the IDF but rather to older avreichim and foreign students who are legally entitled to receive support. He stressed that withholding funding from this population has no legal or moral basis.
Gafni attacked the Attorney General’s office: “This is an absurd situation in which the unelected officials in the Attorney General’s office are blocking the use of funds that were fully approved by the elected officials in the government and Knesset.”
He added that he has contacted the relevant officials and demanded immediate action on the matter.
Gafni clarified that his party will not let the issue pass quietly.
UT MK Uri Maklev is convening a party meeting on Wednesday before the opening of the Knesset session to discuss “the harassment by the Attorney General’s office against the yeshiva budget.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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NOTHING has to do with the draft; it’s ALL just to PERSCUTE the chareidim in every way possible.
the Zionists are just fighting the Torah and thats it, nothing to do with IDF service, nothing to do with “sharing the burden” as they would otherwsie draft Israeli Arab CITIZENS. just a Zionist shmad
That funds aren’t being sent is nothing new. It happens every year from January until at least March. The excuse was always that budgets need to be finalized at the beginning of the fiscal year. The chiddush is that they’ve already cut it off starting from the November payment.
In contrast, according to Israeli labor protection law, if a workplace pays on the 11th of the month instead of up until the 10th, the employee can sue the pants off them.
Rasha merusha continuing her amalek agenda against the will of those who hired her