Tel Aviv – Chairman of the Tel Aviv Student Union, Tal Livne, has requested the support of Shas’ spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in the university student’s battle against a bill granting yeshiva students millions in state funds. Livne asked Rabbi Yosef in a letter to show his support by demanding equal rights for university and yeshiva students.
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“We are not wishing worse conditions for them,” Livne wrote. “If the Israeli government decided to help Israeli students, we ask that they do it without differentiating. We are certain the student body in its entirety is dear to your heart, since you are a person who appreciates and nurtures education.” Livne extended an invitation to the rabbi to visit the Tel Aviv University campus
what a joke
Nu. Sounds fair enough.
never gonna happen
Why wouldn’t rav yosef agree to support this pragmatic proposal since the university students contribute more to the eonomy of EY than those studying full time in yeshivot. There needs to be a basis of productive citizens who generate the tax revenue to support these subsidies and clearlly most of these yeshiva students will never pay a dime in taxes since most will never hold a job.
there’re 100% right. the only problem is that their representetives in the knesset aren’t going to fight for them because they’ll rather fight for money to protect the cows and the monkeys.
A student is student. The university students should get the same subsidy that the kollel students will receive. At least within a few years the university students will graduate and become taxpayers. For how many years will those in kollel continue to receive this money without paying taxes?
Sounds like a plan.
The crumbs (111 million shekels) given to the kollemim amount to 0.03% of the budget. That leaves 99.97% for them to waste on things like financing homosexual organizations and events, maintaing stadiums for soccer matches, museums, and the extremely over-bloated defense budget (the super-power IDF is a liability as the world will always perceive it as a bully). If the budget for kolles would equal the budget for secular education (proportional to the number of students), it would be many times larger than merely 0.03%.
Colleges are great training for subservience to the yetzer hora.
About time. It’s a post WWII phenomenon that higher education is shunned as an evil. For centuries Goyim kept us out of trades and later education – With the center of Jewish life now in free societies, including Israel, it is the Rabbonim who now construct walls to lock us in. Such is their fear of a free society that everything and everyone outside those “walls” are portrayed as schmutz. Meanwhile, the helige chareidim are left in the dust unable, and often unwilling, to earn their way in a modern society.
#8 ,
Baruch HaShem we have the IDF  212; it is the only thing that is between our enemies and another Shoah.
And if you reply that HaShem alone protects us, you are forgetting that it is asur to rely on miracles.
Finally, observant Jews have been attending university for centuries. Or do you not think Rambam, Sforno, Rav Hirsch, Rav Hildesheimer, Rav Herzog, and Rav Soloveitchik, among the many university-educated gedolim, were just getting trained to serve their yetzer hora?