Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s Zero VAT Housing Plan is going to be amended in line with recommendations from Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Housing Minister Uri Ariel, both seeking to accommodate “other populations”
According to a Yisrael Hayom report, the plan will be expanded to accommodate others in addition to young couples.
The current criteria call for young couples with at least one of the partners working, that served in the IDF or approved national service and with children.
The amended bill will include:
1. A couple or single buyer over 35-years-old without children
2. To include divorced adults (over 35)
3. To include same-gender couples (over 35)
4. Disabled people with disability rating 75% or higher
This refers to persons who have not yet purchased an apartment as is the case in the original group of eligible buyers.
In short, the plan remains discriminatory against chareidim, Arabs and anyone that received a draft deferment for one reason or another.
The additional criteria will be added in line with Weinstein’s recommendation to give the bill what it needs to stand the test of a Supreme Court challenge but the changes will not make it friendlier to Arabs, chareidim or those who did not serve.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Why should it?
All Haredim will be eligible to receive this discount, just serve your country first.
Why must you show us his face? Don’t you know that it has an effect on your neshama to look at a rosha? Just look at the effect it had on the first two commenters on this article.
kissehchashmal says:
March 23, 2014 at 9:04 pm
All Haredim will be eligible to receive this discount, just serve your country first.
correct very simple really
kissehchashmal [2]
It’s like saying: All same-gender couples can be eligible, but only if they stop being same gender couples…
Clearly the IDF DOES NOT need the Chareidim, and it will cost a budget-breaking amount to include them. Open your media-blinded eyes.
The idea of the policy is to persecute the hareidim (and the Arabs). Would you have asked Hitler why he didn’t offer tax discounts to Jews?
#2:
The new law includes a proviso that Only those who have performed 18 months of active duty will be eligible for the tax deduction.
That means that any chareidi soldier who enlisted through one of the shachar programs ( which you can not join once you are over the age of 22) are not eligible because they only do 16 months of active service.
Of course lapid and the govt have the right to pass a law like this, but we see more and more each day that is got nothing to do with equality benefiting society but rather all about how can we squeeze the chareidim a little bit more
If they serve the country, the country will serve them.
#2-
How about:
Under the Tal law, everyone was eligible to receive a deferment, even the secular, just enroll in a Yeshiva.
The Zionists started the government with only a group of a few hundred. Being that Lapid and many other ministers are for a 2-state solution, we can easily help them. With b”H hundreds of thousands Charedim in Israel we can already have our own government and keep our taxes for ourselves. No need to support our enemies who hate Hashem and His Torah and hardly give us a few kopikess because of their hatred. Actually, with the way things are happening in Israel, I see this idea coming up very soon.
#3 Couldn’t agree with you more. Not only does it have a spiritual effect, it has a physical effect too as many retch when seeing this photo (seriously, as his spiritual immorality makes him repulsive looking), and you can well imagine what happens when seeing it after a meal…
Israel has a legal issue with programs that discriminate on the basis of having served in the army. The sorts of extensive veterans’ benefits in the United States would be seen as discriminating against Hareidim and Arabs. The logic is that these are social benefits (remember Israel is a socialist welfare state) rather than compensation for military service.
A possible solution might be a Basic Law that both abolished consciption (or at least exempts conscientious and/or religious objectors), combined with authorizing benefits tied to haivng served in the military.
“If they serve the country, the country will serve them.”
Which country did you serve Lapid-lover?
(I apologize if you’re a US army veteran…)