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War cabinet minister Benny Gantz welcomes High Court order on yeshiva funding
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The High Court of Justice’s interim order barring the government from funding the monthly stipends of at least some ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students after April 1 is welcomed by war cabinet minister Benny Gantz.
In a tweet, the former IDF chief of staff says that “the issue is not the High Court of Justice or the prosecutor who does her job faithfully, but our need for soldiers during a difficult war, and the need of our society for everyone to take part in the right to serve the country.”
“The High Court ruled the obvious today, the time has come for the government to do the obvious. It’s time for action,” he adds.
The ruling is also welcomed by outgoing Labor chief Merav Michaeli, who calls it the “bare minimum, which should have happened a long time ago.”
“It’s truly not against ultra-Orthodox and not against studying Torah,” she insists. “It is for the law of the land, which says that everyone serves in the citizens’ army – one of the fundamentals on which the existence of our country rests.”
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