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UTJ Issues Ultimatum Over Basic Budget
by Eliezer Rauchberger

"The support granted to the chareidi educational networks must be included in the basic budget. UTJ approval of the budget at its second and third reading is contingent upon this demand."

This ultimatum was made on 28 Cheshvan by Deputy Education Minister Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz, at a deliberation in the Knesset Finance Committee on the Education Ministry budget. Rabbi Ravitz added that the Finance Ministry's claim that if it honors this request and includes the subsidies in the basic budget chareidi representatives will later make additional demands, is incorrect. In the name of UTJ, he promised that no additional demands for subsidies will be made, other than those included in the basic budget.

Rabbi Ravitz also stated that if the demand is not met and the subsidies are not included in the basic budget, UTJ will abstain from voting on the budget at its second and third reading, as it did at the first vote.

The Deputy Education Minister on behalf of Shas, Meshulam Nahari, also demanded inclusion of the chareidi education support in the basic budget. He made this demand on behalf of the Shas Party.

Chareidi representatives want the state funding for chareidi education to be a part of the regular budget like support for all other education is, rather than a collection of special items that is always given unfair public scrutiny.

 

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