The petition filed by the Yesh Atid party on Tuesday against the transfer of approximately one billion shekels to Chareidi educational institutions was accepted by the Supreme Court, and Justice Yael Wilner announced an interim order freezing the transfer of the funds on Wednesday evening
Chairman of Degel HaTorah MK Moshe Gafni responded to the decision: “The Court has declared war on the Chareidi public and on Torah institutions. The Court requested a response within a few hours—something not customary even in court—and budgets that passed legally, according to accepted procedure and required approvals, were struck down with a stroke of the sword within half a day.”
“The judges’ convictions to harm the livelihood of teaching staff and the damage to the entire system will not be forgiven, nor will the wicked petitioners be forgiven. It turns out there is no democracy in the State of Israel, and the judges make decisions according to their own view and worldview, with no connection to the matters themselves or to the professional decisions made by the government and the Knesset. We will do everything to restore the situation to how it was.”
The Shas party responded to the High Court’s decision: “Antisemitic harassment. The Supreme Court is running wild like a reckless driver on a busy road, brutally and unprecedentedly trampling the Chareidi public—from stealing the daily bread of young children to harming Torah study and the education of tens of thousands of students.
“There are no judges in Jerusalem—only a dangerous group of pyromaniacs who, in their desperate struggle to save their crumbling rule, chose to take the Chareidi public hostage. We call on Jews around the world to raise a cry against this antisemitic harassment. The Chareidi public will stand firm like a fortified wall against these malicious decisions.”
MK Meir Porush responded: “Now it is absolutely clear—the judicial system is not concerned with security needs; it is at war against everything sacred. Lapid and the Supreme Court are trying to fight the holy education of Jewish children. No legal process will prevent us from passing on the mesoras Yisrael from generation to generation. Yesterday in the Selichos of Asara B’Teves, we said: ‘וַעֲדַת עָרִיצִים בִּקְשׁוּ נַפְשֵׁנוּ וְלֹא שָׂמוּךָ לְנֶגְדָּם.”
Likud MK Chanoch Milwidsky responded: “It is not surprising that a protégé of Justice Amit is freezing funds that were lawfully transferred to Chareidi institutions. The Court is grabbing more and more powers for itself. Unfortunately, for now, it is playing on an empty field. This will not stop until we decide to rise up against this judicial tyranny. We are already very late.”
Yair Lapid tweeted this evening on his X account: “I am pleased to report encouraging news from the Supreme Court—following the petition I filed on Tuesday together with MKs Vladimir Beliak, Naor Shiri, and Moshe Kinley Tor-Paz, it was decided to issue an interim order freezing the transfer of over 1,090,000,000 shekels that were transferred illegally to Chareidi institutions. We will continue to fight for the working and serving public.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Such despicable offspring of amalek. The Arabs are enjoying so many Israeli benefits, more than you can imagine without contributing a thing. We’re paying to teach Quran and how to stab properly but the only thing Israelis and their wicked fake religious friends do is cry about the few cents the learners get. And then when they cut that they’re still not satisfied with their status quo of choosing to remain poor, you have to still hunt them down and jail them. All while the military Advocate General and the corrupt Attorney General sip cocktails together somewhere laughing probably and Marwan barguti eats tasty meals everyday with some backgammon in the afternoon
YWN forced me to go to other news sites, lo aleinu, to find out what exactly happened – namely, freezing funds to yeshivot that do not teach maths & English.
I think Joe is right, it’s time for the Chareidim to leave ארץ ישראל. “And let us see what will be with their dream”
No comments necessary on this one
Sometimes you want to point out the rishus it case someone may not see it, that’s become unnecessary
May we be zoche to see bekorov how HKBH will nullify all these gzeirois.
For the life of it I don’t understand.
Why in the world should they support yeshivas.
You don’t contribute anything.
Also why should yeshivas take money from the government??
This is not kosher Torah.
You realize that the arabs have there own economy, even in towns in Israel the arabs have they’re own economy, and things sell for cheaper, also housing is cheaper, this happens also in places in United States, it’s become already a ethnic issue …… It should
The only thing the Torah Jews can do is to build they’re own town and have their own economy, and don’t let the rich Israeli in, or the army families there, and so they can buy food from Iran have they’re own farms and food production etc…. We see it in Lakewood why not in Israel. Got to make your own economy without the Israeli civilization. But as the saying goes “Israel won’t win again” it’s only a matter of time, when it comes to the wicked
The erev rav literally has nothing better to do all day than punish religious people and give Arabs a free pass and funding for everything. Maybe that’s why the whole world calls it Palestine. Because unfortunately that’s who the Jews serve
@YWN – you should have reported the reason for the decision as part of the article. The funds were specifically allocated to schools that taught basic math, science, and English, which these schools had agreed to teach. It turned out that the schools in question were NOT teaching these subjects – which is why the funds were frozen.
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