Piron cuts? Cutting seminary budgets - Retrospective

Blow to Orthodox seminaries: Channel 7 reported today (Tuesday) that the directors of the seminaries and high-school received a total surprise announcement yesterday from the Ministry of Education, in which they were told about the drastic budget cuts to reinforcement Jewish studies.

Abnormally specifically, the cut is not only in the future, but retroactively from last September, the seminaries will be forced to return millions of shekels.

This is a series of blows inflicted on seminaries, beginning with the cuts of 45% of the fixed budgeting agreements reached by the Yahadut Hatorah coalition, which now sits alone in opposition. Continued elimination of PeRaH mentoring budgeting, completely abolished from Beis Yaakov institutions.
Seminary Association convened an emergency meeting yesterday. During the meeting, it was clarified that it is doubtful whether the cuts are a legal test. Seminary managers are afraid that this will require necessarily a wave of dismissal - that is impossible, because there is no legal way to fire a teacher after May 31.

In the meeting it was agreed that the Secretariat would sit with legal counsel to examine the cuts, especially those back pay, to determine whether they meet the test of the law, and whether you can cancel them by legal means.

At the same time the Board sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and asked to meet with him because of what they defined as 'risk of seminary destruction'.
Ministry of Education did not respond to formal knowledge, but senior officials close to the system told B'Chadrei Charedim that "there was no cut. We are talking about money transferred regularly every year, to state-religious institutions and Haredi seminaries. Overall amount remains the same amount, but the number of hours of Judaism study has grown so the amount per hour is small."

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