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Liberman: No reason to fund Haredi institutions that teach ‘idleness’
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Finance Minister and Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
At the Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman says there is no reason to fund Haredi institutes that teach “idleness.”
Liberman says that institutions that refuse to teach core subjects such as English and math can “do it at your expense, not that of taxpayers.”
He adds: “They sit there at the kollelim [where Talmud is taught], they come in the morning, eat a sandwich, drink coffee and talk politics, peruse through some books and go home. Idleness studies are not holy studies.”
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