Supreme Court Justice Ofer Grosskopf issued a temporary injunction blocking the transfer of tens of millions of shekels from the GEFEN program budget to the Shas party’s educational network in response to a petition filed by the radical-left Hadash movement.
The move follows the Court’s dramatic ruling on Wednesday evening blocking the transfer of about one billion shekels to Chareidi schools that had passed all government approvals.
Shas was relying on the GEFEN funds after it failed to meet the conditions of the New Horizon budget criteria, as determined by Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara.
In an attempt to bypass Baharav-Miara’s obsessive battle against the Chareidi sector, an agreement was reached between Shas and Education Minister Yoav Kisch to transfer the funds via the GEFEN program—a budgeting system within the Education Ministry that grants flexible budgets to schools, granting managerial autonomy to principals and local authorities according to their students’ needs.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Baruch hashem the Quran schools are continuing to get kesef
Funny, the Ashkenazi MK’s have been doing this for years, but now they care?!?!
For some time already I’ve been saying that the אנשי כנסת הגדולה foresaw ברוח קדשם what’s going to happen and have therefore placed the ברכה of ולמלשינים אל תהי תקוה וכל הרשעה כרגע תאבד וכו straight after the request of השיבה שופטינו כבראשונה!
It’s up to us now to have extra כוונה in these ברכות so that we’ll be זוכה soon that והזדים מהרה תעקר ותשבר ותמגר ותכלם ותשפילם ותכניעם במהרה בימינו. It’s these זדים which on חנוכה in על הניסים we thanked הקב”ה that He handed over זדים ביד עוסקי תורתך!
Nonsense and shekker.
The schools in question agreed, as a condition of being eligible for these funds, to teach Israel’s minimum core curriculum.
But, upon investigation, were found not to have done so.
They therefore do not qualify for these funds, which are specifically for schools that teach the minimal core curriculum.
This is the law.
The government was trying to bypass the law and transfer the money illegally.
They were doing so in order to buy haredi support of the Nethanyahu government.
The Yesh Atid petition was to prevent this from occurring.
The Supreme Court granted the freeze, pending further investigation.
The haredi ministers then transferred the funds nevertheless.
The Torah institutions had abrogated an agreement to teach certain subjects in order to receive this money. They didn’t keep their part of the agreement but nevertheless demands that the government keep its side of the agreement. That’s why they will lose this one big time.