Bechadrei Chareidim revealed an unusual incident among the charedi parties that took place on the night of the vote on the state budget in the Knesset.
Two MKs from Agudas Yisroel, Meir Porush and Israel Eichler, had a particularly tempting proposal in their pockets which included large budgets totaling about 1.2 billion NIS that would be given by the government to the Yeshivos and Talmud Torah programs in exchange for abstaining during the vote on the state budget on second and third readings. The proposal did not require all party members to abstain, just those two.
Most of the Charedi members of Knesset did not even know about the proposal at the time. The plan was for them to become acquainted with the plan after the pair abstained from the votes. However, a short time before the vote, the rumor spread among the members of the Charedi factions, after receiving messages about the proposal from various rabbonim and their entourages after the pair of MKs went to seek the instruction of the rabbonim with regard to how to proceed.
The results of what happened are well known. Due to the opposition of some members of the Agudat Yisrael Council of Torah Scholars, the proposal never went forward. This was in spite of the fact that the Charedi parties stood to gain more than 1.2 billion NIS for the Charedi community.
The proposal was drawn up between members of the Prime Minister’s Office and members of Agudas Yisroel, and budgets were earmarked for the benefit of the Charedi public. However, as some of the Charedi world is now reflecting on this as a loss for the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, others are standing by the rabbonim who determined that no cooperation between the Charedi parties and the government can take place, whatsoever.
According to a report which was published by B’Chadrei Charedim the monies that were discussed in the secret meetings and agreed upon included 158 million NIS to be added to the budgets of Yeshivos, 124 million NIS to be added to the budgets of dormitories for social services in the Charedi sector, 105 million NIS for the further development of schools that fall into the category of recognized institutions that are unofficial, i.e. private Charedi schools, 66 million NIS for girls seminaries, 60 million NIS for additional hours for teachers in elementary schools, 50 million NIS for raise in salaries for private daycare teachers, 44 million NIS for increasing shiurim in Charedi culture and Torah, 20 million NIS to help prevent high schoolers falling off the derech and dropping out of school, and an additional 20 million for special needs schooling in talmudei torah.
Both Prime Minister Bennett and Finance Minister Lieberman agreed to these budgetary increases for the simple action of these two MKs abstaining from voting against the budget. In the end, the two MKs voted against it and the budget passed anyway, causing the loss of this increased financial aid to the Charedi school system and Yeshivos across the country.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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17 Responses
So they weren’t paid off to do the wrong thing. Great. About time we saw some backbone
just means the money exists in the budget. I am sure the politicians were told by their Rabbanim to act as they did. When Hashem wants the mosdos to have that money, they will. We will get it from the Borei Olam, not Leiberman/Bennett yemach shemam.
This is bribery and a halachic Jew runs from it.
They did the right thing.
Everything is in Hashem’s hand and will turn out for the best and the evil does will be punished!
Some time you need to actually believe in what the AMERICAN DOLLAR 💵 SAYS!
In G-D WE TRUST
VOTE FOR AND WITH PEOPLE WHO WILL FOLLOW G-D – not fight tooth and nail against him
Our values are not for sale.
I guess Bennet and Lieberman are not as depicted. what a surprise
Rabbonim understand halacha but not politics.
If that’s what they were instructed to do by the Gedolim, they did the right thing. Not everything is money, and those Reshoim need to know they can’t just buy the chareidim with money.
So they’re also realizing that these treif monies will impact negatively? So much for that. Just kiddin. It was a mistake from them being that theyre in the government for exactly that. To rake as much money as they can. But lets hope our kids do have a kosher chinuch that has no connection with the government that spites everything that’s holy.
The less the Zionists support Torah, the sooner the Zionists will disappear into history.
In America they call that cutting off your nose to spite your face.
basically they did what Satmar has been doing for generations not taking from treif sources.
And when would our dear friend Finance Minister Lieberman have actually turned over even one of those 1.2 billion shkalim? The Yiddish expression is “ah nechtigeh tog”. The Israeli government has a long history of never delivering religious money appropriated by Knesset (even during the previous coaliton, which included the charedi parties). So why the whole big “secret” charade”? It’s all for naive Tzionim abroad, who may wonder why a government of the Jewish State would include extortionist Arabs while finding no room for Orthodox parties representing more than 20% of the Jewish population.
Ohevet Yisroel, I do not envy your future using a term like Yemach Shemo for someone like Bennet
HaKatan, i hope that the Zionists cut all aid to schools, yeshivot or individuals who do not have an adequate secular education. we will see what will then happen.
balashon, do you get your information from a hallucination?
They put principle over $$$$. Isn’t that the correct thing to do?
chaya13, a hareidi politician acting on principle is about as rare as ice in Gehinnom.
The same hypocrites who attacked the chareidim endlessly for being all about money in post after post, will now attack them for not taking the money?!
DrZhidd: for you to care a darn stitch about yiddishkeit/Yahadus on any of the sites on which you have posted for years is more rare than ice in Gehinnom