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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Yair Lapid to Supreme Court: Transfer of billions to Charedi institutions is illegal


 The Yesh Atid party filed a petition today (Tuesday) with the Supreme Court, requesting a conditional order and urgent interim injunctions against the Finance Committee’s decision to transfer more than one billion shekels to haredi educational institutions.

According to the petitioners, the funds are being transferred unlawfully to institutions that do not teach core curriculum subjects and are not subject to oversight, while bypassing budgetary restrictions and proper procedures.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid, together with party members Vladimir Beliak, Moshe Turpaz, and Naor Shiri, stated that “the petition joins a prolonged struggle against a rotten, corrupt, and wasteful government that disregards Israel’s citizens and treats our money as a bargaining chip and political bribe to solve coalition problems.”

Attorneys Oded Gazit and Eliram Bakal of the Gazit-Bakal law firm, who filed the petition, argued that “the Finance Committee abused its authority and transferred funds unlawfully to institutions that do not meet the educational criteria required by law, rendering the transfers null and void.”

Yesh Atid added that “these are institutions that do not prepare Haredi children for modern life, and the funds are being transferred while attempting to conceal the transfers from the public.”

13 comments:

Garnel Ironheart said...

All true but here's the problem. The Supreme Court can issue the judgements. The government will ignore them.

Anonymous said...

When I see things like this I start to think that the Satmar Rebbe was right after all. I'm going to out everything else and focus on one sentence of Lapid "a rotten, corrupt, and wasteful government that disregards Israel’s citizens" He is very clearly saying that he does not believe Chariedim to be citizens or rights. A government can not possibly make a legitimate agreement with them. The taxes paid by them of course do not count for anything. The Supreme Court has accepted this case and reasoning. Much as I don't want to, and much as I was once a vehement opponent of Satmar, I'm coming to the conclusion that I was wrong and the Satmar Rebbe was right after all.

Dusiznies said...

6:31
Let's look at how the Satmar rebbe was right

Was he right when he told Jews in the late 1930 not to emigrate to the USA because the US was "a treifine medinah?"

Was he right when he advised Jews that held Palestine Visas not to make Aliya because Hitler ym"s will never come to Hungary?

Was he right when he said that Ivrit is a "tumidike Language?" Millions of Jews now speak Ivrit including Satmar Chassidim living in Israel Millions can only speak Ivrit and do not speak any other language!

Was he right when he said in 1956 and again in 1967 that Israel will not have a frum Jew in 20 years hence? Ad he added that there wouldn't be any Moisdois Ha'Torah?
Israel is now the home of the majority of the Jewish people, over 1/2 of the Jews in the entire world speak Ivrit the Tumedike Language

Lets' see, was he right, because there are more moisdois Hatorah in Israel than any other place on the entire world!

Was he right from prohibiting Jews from davening at the Kotel? Because over a million Jews visit the Kotel each year!
Was he right when he said that the Americans never reached the moon and that it was a "Hollywood Production?"

Having said all this, Charedim do not recognize Israel as a State just like the Muslims and therefore they should not have rights! Not Muslims and not Charedim !

Zako said...

To DIN 9:05pm
I'm not making any judgment here, but a third of the American population (that is more or less 100 million people) also do not believe that anyone ever reached the moon.

Zako said...

Garnel 4:43
Not a problem. The government, good or bad, is elected. The "supreme court" is a bunch of old fat unelected masochistic antisemitic lefties.

Dusiznies said...

Zako
I believe that Satmars are very embarrassed with that statement and removed it from all Bio's in all the reprints!

EMES said...

DIN what 6:31 wrote "He is very clearly saying that he does not believe Chariedim to be citizens or rights", could have been written about you and Garnel. Can you accept your view with honor? KES

Dusiznies said...

Sheker calls himself "emes"
Your moniker is what the Navie predicted will happen in the Achris HaYomim

Garnel Ironheart said...

I agree but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Garnel Ironheart said...

No, his comment are a reflection of statements by the Chareidi community. By refusing the share the burden, by refusing to contribute to the economy, and by threatening to bankrupt the country and disrupt society, the Chareidim admit that they do not see themselves to be citizens despite hypocritically demanding all citizens rights.

Oyberlander said...

"tumidike Language?"

You are also mocking the Kadmonim which is where Satmar Ruv zya got that idea. The Baalei Tosfos or maybe even earlier made a takona for bnei Ashkenaz to replace Lashon Koidesh mit Yiddish because LK was turning into something like Ivrit which has dirty words which LK does not. Der Chasam Soifer shreibt vegen dem. Or ken zein the Ruv saw that one day tze vet zein a Tzioni blogger vus rift zich DIN who gonna use midei yoim yoim even filthier language than Lapid using when he in a bad mood.

And do you know how funny you sound? Because of the nusach Kiddush Levono even Shlomo Goren was bavorning about the astronauts not reeaching the Moon, which R' Yaakov Kamenetsky said he's wrong. But you a hypocrite so no criticizing Goren from your shnit

Dusiznies said...

9:55
The" Kadmonim"?"
Which "Kadmon" specifically said that Yiddish, that was stolen from German, that subsequently butchered 6 million Jews and killed and massacred them during the crusades and expelled them from Cologne and Mainz,was a holy language yet Hebrew is "tumedik"???????
Most of Satmar spoke Hungarian a language of people that helped the Nazis rape and butcher their own residents !

Yes! Makes a lot of sense that Hebrew is "tumedik" a language spoken now by the majority of the Jewish people whereas Yiddish that shtams from a bunch of blood thirsty murderers is holy!
BTW Many of those Kadmonim were murdered by those whose language they spoke!

IVRIT does not have a single "dirty word" you liar!
Dirty words are from Arabic!
It doesn't even have a word for defecating or urinating!

Chasam Sofer?????
I'm glad you mentioned the Chasam Sofer, whose rebbe davened in the Sfardie now Israeli havara! And the CS wrote many times that in Israel one must work!

These Charediem are sick...
Now "Oyberlander"9:55 is shlepping out Shlomo Goren who according to them is "tumei" and comparing him to the Satmar Rebbe, saying that both didn't believe that the USA ever reached the moon!

This convoluted idea that the USA never reached the moon is so convoluted that it begs to question that those promoting this are insane!

Over 400,000 individuals worked on this massive undertaking, including engineers, scientists, technicians, and support staff.
If you add their families, we are talking about millions of people that were intimately involved and knew of all the background work, yet no one ever from these people ever said that it was a fraud! NOT ONE!

Zako said...

Garnel Spongeheart 2:26am just showed his true face. Nothing new... the Wermacht held pretty much the same language.