Budget said to include NIS 5 billion pledged to Haredi parties in coalition deals

As part of the state budget for the next two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government is set to approve NIS 5 billion (close to $1.4 billion) in spending promised to ultra-Orthodox parties as part of coalition deals, Channel 13 reports.

According to the network, most of those funds will go to yeshivas and teachers at Haredi educational institutions.

NIS 500 million (near $1.4 million) a piece will reportedly go to the Jerusalem, Tradition and Mount Meron Ministry, headed by United Torah Judaism’s Meir Porush, and to a government body for the socioeconomic advancement of the ultra-Orthodox community. The rest of the money will be allocated for numerous other agencies and causes.

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