Haredim in petition: "illegal cuts, 40 thousand children fell below poverty line"

Four haredim, fathers of large families from Ashdod and Kiryat Gat, responded with an original step to the sharp cuts in child allowances: petitioning to the High Court for an order nisi against the Israeli Knesset calling to cancel the brutal cuts, for a long list of reasons.

Justice Y. Danziger Dan who is handling the petition presented to the state 40 days to file its response.

The four: Yohanan Nahum Lev, Menachem Greenbaum, Yehiel Moshe Rosenbaum and Yaakov Rotenstein, filed the petition through lawyer Rami Abramov, where they require "To explain why not cancel the items received under the general ruling of the Arrangements Law, which mean a rampant, vicious, aggressive and disproportionate cut in children's allowances", they also demand to explain "why did the respondent not demand to hold for these sections a separate in-depth discussion in collaboration with relevant professional bodies... by establishing a mechanism, which is based on the calculation of all the needs and actual expenses necessary for the proper existence for the dignity of children. "

Further in the petition, the petitioners also argue that the violation of fundamental rights of the children, and their right to live with dignity. They also cite the opposition of many professional bodies to the cuts, and the fact that the cuts in question will lead to another 40 thousand children under the poverty line.

"There is concern that the statutory sections were obtained from extraneous considerations, which discriminate between the various segments of the population, especially the intent to harm large families, both Jewish Haredi and Arab ones, who are the poorest sectors of the country," the lawsuit said.

"Why would the sections of the law that seek to deliberately to cause birth limit be revoked, despite the blatant and clearly non-constitutional violation, which is protected in the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty."

According to the petitioners "All the serious consequences arising from the specific cuts have not been checked... a strong smell of use extraneous considerations which discriminate between the various sectors of the population, mainly offending large families."

They note that one of the petitioners also sent a letter to Finance Minister Yair Lapid – and did not receive any response, and even offer other alternatives to the cuts.

As noted, the state has 40 days to provide its answer.

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