Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara determines that donations to ultra-Orthodox yeshivas with students who have not enlisted in military service after receiving conscription orders cannot enjoy tax-free status.
In an update to the High Court of Justice on the issue, the attorney general says that “the state cannot continue to indirectly finance” religious institutions where men who have failed to report for military service are enrolled, saying that granting such institutions tax credits would “encourage evasion.”
Baharav-Miara says that the tax authorities need further time to implement her instructions.
The High Court has explicitly ruled that the state must not provide any funds, directly or indirectly, to such institutions.
Ultra-Orthodox politicians lambaste Baharv-Miara over her instructions, with United Torah Judaism chair MK Yitzhak Goldknopf stating that she was acting “without restraint in her war against those who study Torah in the hold land.”
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