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Due to the growing financial problems within Keren Kiruv Yaldei Yisrael, which are now�threatening the future education of 30,000 children across Israel, the esteemed Rosh Yeshivah,�Harav Aharon Leib Steinman, shlita, recently gathered GedoleiYisrael in his home to brief them�on the mushrooming crisis.

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The meeting was attended by Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita; Rosh Yeshivas�Ponovezh, HaravGershon Edelstein, shlita; and Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, Harav Dov Landau, shlita.�The directors of the fund presented the Rabbanim with the deepening financial hole that the fund�is currently facing. If the financial hole is not plugged in the immediate future, tens of thousands�of Israeli children could end up going to state secular schools, instead of Tamludei Torah and�Bais Yaakov schools due to a lack of funds to transport the youngsters to the religious educational�institutions.

The chairman of Keren Kiruv, Rabbi Mordechai Karelitz, related that the cost of transportation for�these students this year alone is more than $17 million dollars. �Today we have debts of millions�of shekels to drivers,� he revealed.�If we don�t have money to give them, no one will bring these�tens of thousands of children to Talmudei Torah and Bais Yaakov schools, and if these children�don�t attend, all the 115 Kiruv schools may collapse, chalilah.�

The Mashgiach, Harav Chizkyahu Mishkovsky, shlita, one of the Rabbanim of Keren Kiruv, spoke�in very emotional terms. He said, �We are facing a situation where more than 30,000 children�may be lost! Harav Elyashiv, zt�l, told me that this is not a matter of taking a secular child and�making him religious. He is already with us and this means throwing him out of our�schools!�

The severity of the situation made an impression on the Gedolim, where they issued a call under�the heading of �A Time of Distress for Yaakov.� In their letter, they used unusually strong�wording� �and it is an absolute obligation for each and every person to try to do no less�than adopt one child��

Despite the grim report at the meeting, the Gedolim expressed optimism that their message will�resonate within the Torah world and that the community will become vital partners, in making�sure these children will be able to grow in Torah and Yiras Shamayim.

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