Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara has escalated her frenzied battle against Chareidim and the Olam HaTorah, now even spreading her poison to Bnei Torah from abroad.
She is considering halting all funding for yeshivos, even those attended by non-Israelis, to avoid the possibility that any state funds may indirectly benefit Chareidi “draft dodgers,” Kan News reported.
The issue arose as the government was preparing to increase funding for yeshivos serving overseas students. At present, state support for non-citizen yeshiva students—who are not obligated to enlist—stands at 85% of the funding provided for Israeli students. The proposed move would raise that level to full parity, or close to it (around 95%), amounting to an increase of millions of shekels annually.
Baharav-Miara, however, claims to be “concerned” that even after funding for draft-eligible students has been halted, money allocated to yeshivos for non-draft-eligible talmidim could still be diverted to support draft dodgers.
She sent a letter to the Education Ministry warning that increasing funding for yeshivos that serve “draft dodgers” and non-draft dodgers—without strict oversight—is “illegal.”
The letter states that such a move cannot be approved unless there is a clear and verifiable separation in yeshiva accounting, specifying how much state funding is allocated to overseas students and how much to Israeli students who are legally obligated to enlist.
In a recent letter that Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs sent to Baharav-Miara, he stated that according to this interpretation, she will soon halt all welfare and health budgets for the entire Chareidi sector, because perhaps someone who learns Torah might receive an aspirin from someone who doesn’t learn Torah.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Hash-m will take care of her.
This Nazi reshanta.
When you this her רשעות can’t get any bolder. If only she can do תשובה: her welcome in שמים after 120, as it stands now, will be absolutely horrible. Nebach
Hm, she is asking for accounting. Moshe did accounting in Pekudei without AG forcing him to do that.
1. Shouldn’t they also ban funding foreign students at Israeli universities?
2. Foreign students studying in Israel tend to be from affluent countries and spend lots of money in Israel (housing, transportation, food, clothing, recreation, etc.). This money creates jobs for Israelis.
3. The wing of the zionist movement that has been dominant since World War I is dedicated to the idea of creating a sovereign state where Jews could live their lives free of Torah, and be a nation like any other nation. The alternative movements wanted a homeland (not necessarily a sovereign state) for Jews with economic and political freedom, including the freedom to be frum.
The socialist and nationalist zionists made war inevitable but that could change soon enough since hareidim will soon have the numbers to win elections, and will be able to credibly offer to support a non-zionist Jewish autonomous community with an Islamic political entity. If the hilonim can’t destroy the Haredim now, it might prove impossible to do so in the future.
It’s a nice thing for a country with means to subsidize foreign students. After two years of war Israel is struggling under huge debt paying for weapons and military equipment, and supporting tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, orphaned children and widows. They’re not a wealthy country, and we’re not discussing subsidies, we’re talking about 95% of funding.
Can someone explain to me why the Israeli government, by extension Israeli taxpayers, are expected to pay for the education of yeshiva students from the U.S. and other countries outside Israel?
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-fourth-reich-of-israel/
Golfer, you make a good point however this is not her point. She just hates Chareidim through and through.
Golfer, you make a good point however this is not her point. She just hates Chareidim through and through. She is motivated by hate.
Yemach shema vezichra all her koach comes from the samech mem u can see on her wicked face her determination to wipe our religion
She will fail and burn for eternity
Golfer – I went to learn in Mir. I was spending ? 3-500 USD per month. Plus yeshiva fees. After 3 months, my parents came to visit with 3 of my siblings on Elal. They paid for taxis, resteraunts, trips etc. I got married and lived in Israel. Rented a flat. Bought food. Paid for goods. Flew Elal. My parents visited yearly and eventually brought a flat. Literally millions of shekel put into the Israeli economy at the cost of a few hundred shekel a month. Non of this would have happened in an environment that didn’t welcome chutzniks.
This is not an untypical pattern for thousands and thousands of chutzniks. They bring in millions of shekel monthly. Every apartment block in yerushalayim is bringing thousands monthly into the Israeli economy. The Torah learning is a huge ‘export’.
It’s extremely short sighted to threaten it.
Golfer,
Maybe the AG didn’t think of that, since she did not advance this reasoning. Perhaps you can apply to work for her office!