Due to the dire shortage of classrooms in the chareidi mosdos, Jerusalem City Hall has approved an additional 100 classrooms in the city, in Sorotzkin, Givat Shaul, N�vei Yaakov and Geula. The approval is credited to Deputy Mayor R� Yitzchak Pindrus, who holds the education portfolio on the city council.

While politicians seem to routinely attack the chareidi tzibur for being �parasites� and getting �too large a share of the budgetary pie�, rarely will one find a public school operating under the difficult overcrowding conditions seen in many mosdos throughout the country.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)