Israel – Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar invited the student union leadership to meet with him on Wednesday in order to settle the disagreement between the secular students and the ultra-Orthodox sector over the yeshiva student funding bill.
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“We were very happy to receive the rabbi’s invitation, and we will meet with him soon,” said Student Union Chairman Itzik Shmuli in response.
The meeting takes place two days after nearly 10,000 university students from across the country marched in Jerusalem Monday under the banner “We’re not suckers!” to show their opposition to the plan to renew the stipends.
On Monday, as the march was taking place, the prime minister’s spokesman issued a statement defending its policy on stipends for yeshiva students.
“The government is dealing with the issue of supplements for yeshiva students in the exact same way the government has for the past 30 years, and the supplements in question total the same sum approved by former governments,” the statement read.
They should eliminate these subsidies for ALL students and let them pay their own way. The government is running up huge deficits and would be much better off cutting taxes and spending just like it appears we are going to do here in the U.S. Yeshiva students should learn part time and work part time to support themselves and their families. There is no entitlement to support from the medinah.
“They should eliminate these subsidies for ALL students and let them pay their own way”
How refreshing! What a novel thought.
I assume that by “ALL students”, #1 , you include avreichim sitting around in all the kolelim in Israel?