A new report submitted this week to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked presents new data that may attest to the fictitious divorce phenomenon in Bedouin society. Children, along with hundreds of other women who are registered as divorced and have given birth to another child with their divorce after the divorce. This is a particularly high percentage compared to their population, and it is suspected that this is fraud. .
The National Insurance Institute employs investigators on its behalf to prevent fraud.
In the Be'er Sheva sub-district, there are only six investigators conducting investigations on suspicion of fraud.
In 2017, single mothers and single women from the Bedouin sector received income support benefits in the amount of NIS 103.5 million.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the rate of single-parent families with children among the Bedouin is the highest in the country and stands at 10.2 percent of all Bedouin families, compared to only 5.8 percent of Jewish single-parent families with children in the Central District.
The National Insurance data also show that about ten percent of the Bedouin women who received a maternity allowance are single.
In response to a request from the Regavim movement, the National Insurance Institute admitted that in recent years no investigations have been conducted to expose the fictitious divorce phenomenon in the Bedouin sector, even though these could have saved tens of millions of shekels every year.
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