In what was a major election promise to dati leumi voters, the Bayit Yehudi Party has secured a budget of 100 million NIS to lower tuition costs to parents in that educational network. The funds will be allocated to subsidize the payments made annually by parents sending their children to state run religious high schools to significantly lower tuition from the second child.
Party leader Naftali Bennett praised the move, which he calls the fulfillment of a promise to voters, adding “There is no reason these parents should pay more than other sectors of society for their children.
Chareidi lawmakers, now members of the opposition, point out when they allocated funds for mosdos, it was called “chareidi extortion” and here, before the ministers are even in office, 100 million NIS is grabbed by the dati leumi parties and everyone is fine with it.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Such baloney…..over the last decades no financial assistance was ever offered to Dati Leumi mosdos, mesivtas, ulpanas, etc.
I guess the next few months will continue to highlight differences that were never focused on in past coalitions.
FINALLY! In the nine years since I’ve been here, I’ve watched my husband’s family – all chiloni – pay no tuition, and all my chareidi cousins, with their combined 33 children, pay no tuition. Only I have been paying between 3-5 thousand shekel a year to give my children a chardal-torani education. When shas got all that money to give yeshivos, they deliberately left out my sons’ all boys, all torani yeshivos, even though my son presently from 7 am to 9 pm, because the school includes a measly 2 hours a day to teach math and science.