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| The High Court’s yeshiva funding ruling goes into effect today. What does it entail? |
| 2024-04-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Starting this week, hundreds of yeshivas will see their budgets slashed, prompting leading rabbis to look abroad to raise the funds needed to continue operating. What does the ruling mean in practical terms, and how will it affect the over 1,000 yeshivas that have, until now, received monthly payments from the Education Ministry? The background For decades, ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, men of military age have been able to avoid the draft by enrolling for study in yeshivas and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the national age of military exemption, currently 26. These repeated deferrals — de facto military service exemptions — and the government stipends many yeshiva students receive through age 26 have infuriated the wider general public, sparking numerous legal and legislative efforts to ensure what advocates of universal conscription call “equality of the burden.” The court decision, issued on Thursday night, came after the government repeatedly delayed submitting a proposal to the court for plans to increase ultra-Orthodox military enlistment. It took effect following the expiration on Sunday night of a legally dubious temporary regulation that instructed the IDF conscription authorities not to draft Haredim — a regulation the government issued last summer just before the expiration of the law that enshrined the annual deferrals. As of Monday morning, the ruling applies to funding given by the state to Haredi yeshivas for students who reached enlistment age after the expiration of the law last year — as the legal framework for deferring their military service no longer exists. Although they were unable to receive deferrals, these students were not called up for service because of the government’s order not to enforce enlistment, but they are now eligible for the draft. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #19 Honestly, my mother is fun to have around — we’ve been inviting her to move in ever my father entered his final decline twenty years ago. Even diminished, she is cheerful with a sly sense of humour, interested in everything and everyone, and is ever willing to lend a helping hand with whatever needs to be done. We’ve been polishing silver and shredding old tax returns, among other long disregarded chores. So she’s been making a difference. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-02 23:20 |
| #18 Bless you tw. |
| Posted by: Ululating+Platypus 2024-04-02 22:11 |
| #17 Bless you TW. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2024-04-02 20:00 |
| #16 ^Good luck. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 16:10 |
| #15 ^ You are doing God's work, TW. He sees and He smiles. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-02 16:05 |
| #14 Things happen in war zones. Gaza is not a safe space like New York City. With regard to the Damascus hit, all the details were revealed in comments here yesterday. By the time my mother had retired to bed*, leaving me free to address working up articles for today’s Burg, there was nothing left for me to add. Well done, y’all! * My darling 98-year old mother has reached the stage where she can no longer live independently, so we moved her into our front sitting room a few weeks ago. It’s an adjustment for us all, but overall a pleasure. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-02 16:02 |
| #13 ^I've to add that, personally, I only care about IDF casualties. As to the WCK victims - they might have been full of good intentions & compasion, but they assisted evil. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 14:36 |
| #12 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 14:30 |
| #11 It was a truck convoy that was hit. The media keeps shouting "kitchen kitchen kitchen" like it was a mess tent full of women and children that was hit. These convoys have been used to move arms. If IDF had actionable intel to that effect, they are under no obligation to expose their "sources and methods" to placate a medi that won't be placated anyway. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-02 14:13 |
| #10 Given how often UNWRA staff in Gaza have primary careers in Hamas, with the second job at UNWRA coming after they developed skills additional to their prime work as made men, one has to ask who paid the dead World Central Kitchen people during their off hours. Five’ll get you ten that they had worked hard to deserve suddenly becoming a floating red mist — no matter how much certain parties consider it unthinkable. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-02 14:07 |
| #9 The Syria hit was on a residential building adjacent to the Iranian Embassy I came across this tidbit earlier in another place. Funny how sprinkling a little additional information on top completely changes the flavor of the story from a ballsy but necessary move to "Oopsie! Sorry about the collateral damage." Not that I am suggesting the media are lying crapweasels, but one does wonder how often it happens. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-04-02 13:53 |
| #8 Let's hear it for coalition gummints... Golf clap Of course, the dem "coalition of victims" here in USA sucks monkey ass too. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-02 13:47 |
| #7 ^Part of it. The other part, it was tolerable, when they were a small group - but they breed like rabbits. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 13:40 |
| #6 When we visited Israel the tour guide said the ultra-orthodox got away with what they did because they formed a voting bloc that the ruling party needed to form a coalition. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-04-02 13:25 |
| #5 Don't know why that part about Snowden got included. You need some remedial 'cut and paste' training. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-02 12:07 |
| #4 Shifa Hospital was a hive of terrorists. The Syria hit was on a residential building adjacent to the Iranian Embassy - and we all know how sacred Iranians view Embassies, right? Try again trollboy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-04-02 12:00 |
| #3 That was supposed to only be the bottom part. Don't know why that part about Snowden got included. Another traitor LOL. |
| Posted by: Anginenter+Sherelet4063 2024-04-02 11:07 |
#2 LOL fuck around and find out!Thus always to traitors!
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| Posted by: Anginenter+Sherelet4063 2024-04-02 10:06 |
| #1 It means the end of the ultra-orthodox (a coalition of sects) state within the state. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 01:56 |