It has been three weeks since the deadline for submitting a request for supplemental income for avreichim who qualify for state aid and they have yet to receive a payment. With Bein Hazmanim behind us and Rosh Hashanah closing in, the families of the avreichim are in need of payment, which amounts to NIS 4,500, a sizeable sum when a family is out of money. Payment due them reflects a one-time retroactive payment as well.
Ministry of Education officials are quoted telling Kikar Shabbos News that the deadline was August 25th and now, officials are reviewing the applications of the avreichim, adding there are thousands of applications so the process will take time.
Deputy Education Minister (Shas) Yitzchak Cohen has been working to expedite the process and he remains hopeful the funds will be transferred into the accounts of avreichim before Rosh Hashanah.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Curious why the state gives money to kollel people.
Reply to No. 1
Because some of these guys refuse to work even part time while enrolled in a kollel, and in some cases, the wives are home with the kids and also don’t want to work or simply have no skills through which to earn a parnassah. Thus, money from their parents, supplemented with money from the state, is their only means of survival. Whether you approve or not, and most Israelis don’t, if the State has agreed to make such welfare payments, the bureaucrats in the Education ministry should get it done on time.
To #1: you mean you don’t understand why a state that claims to be Jewish should be supporting Jewish studies? THAT is either questionably curious or curiously questionable.
Trying again. To #1: You don’t think the state that claims to be Jewish should support Jewish studies? Arab university students are OK to support, but not kollel people?
They really pay people to go to college?
Here it is the other way around, we pay to go to school. There is no difference if it’s Hebrew school or a different type of private school.