Following another petition to the Supreme Court by the Hiddush organization, the nation’s highest court has instructed the state to explain why it is still funding yeshivos. The petition follows Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron granting a funding extension, the third.
The petition follows the disqualification of the Tal Law by the Supreme Court, with the latter giving legal status to grant deferments from army duty for bnei torah as well as the framework for state funding of yeshivos.
The state has been continuing to fund yeshivos and kollelim, using a work-around. It explained in the last petition that work to finalize a new draft law was underway and during the interim period, it continues to fund mosdos with talmidim who have not been called to service or those who have a draft deferment.
The petitioners feel that without the Tal Law in place and in light of the court’s position, continued funding of yeshivos and kollelim is illegal. After Piron extended the funding for a third time the petitioners turned to the court seeking an injunction to halt funding. The court has given the state a week to respond.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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why not?
#1 Because Zionists’ money is not for charedi parasites protecting the land by learning Torah and praying. This money needs to be send to Hamas and Fatah and the terrorists murderers released from Israel’s prisons as well as to Arabs residing in Israel who are not in the army.
He who pays the fiddler calls the tune. If you stop paying the fiddler, you can’t call the tune. And the people running the Israeli government definitely want to call the tune.
The government needs leverage against the yeshivos, and those who accept zionist money are in effect being bribed. If the government doesn’t keep paying, many of those yeshivos would be very comfortable becoming totally hareidi (as many of them feel they already are hareidi, and they are other than for the fact they are on the zionist’s payroll). A yeshiva that might be horrified over conscription, closing frum schools, requiring all marriages to go through the zionist rabbinate, etc., will think twice about opposing the government if their funding is on the line — but without funding, they are free to vigorously oppose the government. It could mean the difference between a few percent of Israelis opposed to the medinah, and over ten percent, i.e., from a small fringe group to a potential mass movement.