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NIS 34m more approved for Holocaust survivors
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael is approving an additional NIS 34 million ($8.85 million) in welfare payments to Holocaust survivors and veterans of the fight against the Nazis.
The payment was approved today by the Knesset’s Finance Committee and is retroactive to the beginning of 2015, Army Radio says.
From next year the state is budgeting NIS 48 million ($12.5 million) for the survivors, many of whom live in poverty and have trouble paying their medical bills.
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