Jerusalem – Yesh Atid MK Yoel Razbozov submitted a complaint against the Shas’s El Hama’ayan chain of schools to Jerusalem Police on Monday, following reports of improper conduct.
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Razbozov’s complaint followed a report by the accountant-general indicating flaws in the way El Hama’ayan institutions are managed, including nepotism in its hiring practices, falsified reports, transferring special education funds to other students and others.
“I came here to request that an investigation be opened immediately,” Razbozov said. “I could not stand silently and watch how public funds are used inappropriately and harm children of Israel and their education.”
Razbozov expressed hope that the police will start an investigation “in light of the important public aspect of the issue.”
The Education Ministry said on Sunday that it will be taking a series of serious steps against the Shas school system in light of the accountant-general’s report.
The report highlights the practice of illegal employment of family members within the school network, false reporting, operating educational institutes without a license and the payment of salaries to people who did not work in the school system.
Because of the serious problems with the haredi school system in general, Education Minister Shai Piron has decided to implement serious reforms, including the dismantlement of the department within his ministry which oversees haredi education and instead creating a “haredi public school district.”
In addition, the budget for Shas’s school network will pass through the Education Ministry instead of passing directly to the educational network, as has happened until now. The funds will be earmarked for narrow purposes and it will not be possible to misappropriate money within the system.
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nepotism in a frum school? that’s impossible!
I expect loads of vitriol to be unleashed against this action. The thing is, it sound slike the government is right. Nepotism, no show jobs and the final straw, taking money earmarked for specialed and spending it on the other things. Sounds like something done in brooklyn.
religious schools should not be given money from the government in a democracy, and true Torah institutions should not accept money from the zionist regime
If the government spends 8 times as much on a non-religious student as they do on Orthodox, and there is still waste in the Orthodox system, so they should really know where to look at.
Oh I forgot, bashing Haredim is in style, while others they’re starting up with powerful unions. So they have the right tools to fix the 40,000,000,000.00 NIS shortfall, take care of the 3,000,000,000.00 the Hateful are getting, and miraculously all will be solved.
lets talk about mismanagement in chiloni schools/ my friend is a teacher there: most kids carry knives/ half the kids talk in class during lessons and to reprimand them is illegal, fortunatelty the other half listens/ during the films of jews being shot and tortured in nazi death camps there are kids in the back laughing thinking its a joke. etc etc. only haredi institutions are mismanaged with unruly kids drugs knives and violence
#3 Can you please tell your friends to stop asking religious Zionist for money?
Wow! Go Yesh Atid! Finally someone with the guts to take on the corruption that’s robbed the future from a generation of frum kids…hopefully the ashkenazic schools are next.
Then all we need is the same effort in New York and Lakewood.
The symptoms of financial mismanagement are not restricted to frum schools. It can and does happen in other private system schools too. As i see it the difference in this case is that nepotism and control of others in the kehilla, because you control the purse string is now predominant and an accepted way of life. In our town as i am sure in many others the chederim are staffed with family members related to the head honcho. Who knows what else goes on?
It would be much better for our children if the money earmarked for cheder and yeshivos was managed by outside professionals. They would at least allocate the funds correctly. There is always room for shtick but at least this way most of the money would go to qualified rebbeim , and much needed resources.
This investigation and continued enforcement will help and encourage others to run their schools honestly. Go figure We have to make sure that the institutions that are supposed to teach us ethical Torah behaviour stop acting unethically and stop misusuing (stealing ) funds not meant for personal use.
what a novel idea. i am all for Torah learning and living ….. not anti torah . i am anti shtick.