Israeli Government Offers Children of Poor to Haredim as Sacrifice for Support

According to Haaretz, the Israeli school system has partnered in rigging the school system to favor ultra-Orthodox school systems in a manner that proves tempting to secular Jews of modest means.

“Free transportation, it turns out, has a critical role in persuading non-religious and traditional families to switch to networks of ultra-Orthodox schools intended for the newly religious.

And not only free transportation. The free hot lunches provided in these schools for those finding religion - as well as the meals in ultra-Orthodox schools in general - are an important means of making these schools much more attractive to parents, at the expense of the state school system.

In the competition for the hearts and minds of students from the lower classes, such services can be very important, and in this battle the ultra-Orthodox schools have the upper hand.

The reality is that services the state schools cannot afford to provide are passed out freely by the ultra-Orthodox schools. Education Minister Yuli Tamir attributed this in a conversation with TheMarker to the charitable contributions the ultra-Orthodox religious schools receive, since they are semi-private. This allows them accept such contributions legally.

However, the Justice Ministry’s investigation revealed that Tamir’s explanation is only a partial one at best. Only a small part of such additional services provided by the ultra-Orthodox schools are paid for by contributions. Most of the money seems to come from government funding - the Israeli taxpayer - via the Education Ministry budget.

In some cases, the ministry allocates the ultra-Orthodox specific budgets for these services, thereby clearly discriminating against the regular state schools.�

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Of course, at least in Israel, this sort of corruption exists outside of the secular school system itself. In the U.S., we allow the proselytizers into our secular school system under false ecumenical pretenses, and allow them to prey not only upon our poor, but even our middle-class.

But the U.S. isn’t the Zionist Entity, and Jews do not directly depend on Haredi political support for power. We don’t need to offer the allies and recruiters of the haredim child sacrifices.

Get NCSY/JSU out of our public school system! This isn’t Israel or every other secular Middle East country heading towards fundamentalism. We can still say no!

Hat tip: Failed Messiah