MK (Shas) Yaakov Margi, who heads the Knesset Education Committee, is calling on both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, to become personally involved after the nation’s daycare centers declared a strike, postponing opening day.

Margi’s speaks of the “ongoing distress in the daycare centers”, which he explains is the result of a shortage of caregivers, which he attributes to “improper employment conditions for them”.

In his statement to the media in a press release, he warns, “this results in improper and/or insufficient care for infants and toddlers,” calling on the senior ministers “to regain control and take the necessary action to improve the situation in the daycare centers.”

“The assessment of the importance of daycare centers and the need to invest to improve the situation in the operation of daycare centers in order to prevent the downtime, in recognition of the importance of the daycare centers, in addition to the needs to invest in early childhood education, and with the view that this downtime will cause damage to the economy, and infrastructure of the education system.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)