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Shas’s Deri: High Court decision on yeshiva funds is ‘unprecedented maltreatment of Torah scholars’
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Shas chairman Aryeh Deri slams Thursday’s High Court decision to bar the government from funding the monthly stipends of at least some ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, declaring it a “mark of Cain” and “an unprecedented maltreatment of Torah scholars in the Jewish state.”
“Precisely in the days when the people of Israel need the mercy of heaven in the south and in the north, the High Court of Justice takes an offensive approach toward the Torah scholars on whom the world stands,” he says in a statement.
“Shas will continue to fight for the right of yeshiva students to study the Torah and will examine its next steps,” he adds.
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