4400 students left yeshiva in September?

Is the dramatic cut in the yeshiva budgets taking its toll? After years in which there was a steady increase in the number of yeshiva students, last September, the trend reversed when 4,400 students and married students reportedly left the world of Torah education. NRG Ma'ariv reported.

Education Ministry officials speculated that the dramatic decline in the number of yeshiva students recorded following significant cuts in the yeshiva budget - a billion shekels in 2012 to NIS 650 million in 2013, with the actual cuts felt in religious institutions with the opening of the new school year in Elul, namely August 2013.

"People who did not really learn, understand now, after the cut, that they should not be registered at the yeshiva only for a few hundred per month, but it is better for them to work," said a Ministry source to Maariv - and added: "Ultimately, the vision is that by removing those who do not learn, those who do learn will receive significant benefits. "

Among institutions managers believe that it is too early to draw conclusions. "Substantial change does not get checked in one month," says one director. "There is no decline. There is a sense of heads of institutions who say: 'If this is the sum, for what is all the bureaucracy? It is better to get donations.

His position is shared by Moshe Gutman, CEO of the Association of Zionist yeshivas, said: "The Minister of Finance audit practices hard so that administrator's institutions prefer not to ask for anything, because if they do not meet the conditions, they shall be fined for 36 months. Although reported less so, but that does not mean that the actual change in the number of students.

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