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Finance Ministry General Accountant Calls for Fewer Inspections of Yeshivas

By Eliezer Rauchberger

The Finance Ministry General Accountant wrote a letter to Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman pledging to reduce inspections and audits of yeshivas from their current level of four per year to one every three years. Four per year is an unusually high level that is not found in any other area. The intense inspections have confounded the critics who expected to uncover massive fraud but found nothing significant.

In exchange for this commitment, the Finance Committee Chairman had the committee approve government requests to transfer budget funds to the Education Ministry, including a request to cut nearly NIS 2 million earmarked for those inspections and audits of yeshivas.

Previously the Chairman had delayed approving the funding transfers associated with the Education Ministry to protest the Ministry's decision to cut close to NIS 2 million from the yeshiva educational budget in order to increase the inspections by hiring an external accountant to audit yeshivas, kollelim and Torah institutions. He also expressed his opposition to the exhausting audits and investigations of yeshivas in contrast to institutions of higher education, where no audits are conducted.

 

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