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2022-12-22T15:18:26.175Z


The prime minister-designate rejected the demand of the ultra-orthodox factions, which came up as part of the coalition negotiations. This, after Netanyahu praised in an interview in English yesterday his decision to cut child benefits in 2003: "In order to put the public sector on a diet, I had to cut the luxurious welfare system. This is not popular."


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The prime minister-designate and Likud chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected a demand by the ultra-orthodox factions to raise child allowances as part of the coalition negotiations - this is what senior Likud officials said today (Thursday).

According to them, Netanyahu agreed to a comparison of terms between ultra-Orthodox education and state education, for example in the wages of ultra-Orthodox kindergarteners that would be compared to the wages of ordinary kindergarteners, but refused any demand to increase the children's allowances.



However, within the framework of the coalition agreements with the ultra-Orthodox factions, it was agreed upon to increase the yeshiva budget, the allowances of the youths, budget additions for ultra-Orthodox education, and the budgeting of institutions without core studies.



Yesterday, in an interview in English, Netanyahu praised his decision as finance minister in 2003 to cut child benefits and said that he paid a heavy political price for it at the time.

In an interview he gave to promote his autobiographical book with the Canadian thinker and psychologist Jordan Peterson, Netanyahu described his policy in the Ministry of Finance in the Sharon government and said: "In order to put the oil, the public sector, on a diet, I had to cut Israel's magnificent welfare system, which encouraged people to live on allowances, and not go out to work," he said.

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"Agreed to compare conditions between ultra-orthodox education and state education."

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"I cut the child allowances, which were unusual in Israel, increasing with each subsequent child. The Bedouins in the Negev had 60 children and they could drive a BMW Jeep," added the prime minister-designate.

"It led to a demographic and economic collapse, and the same thing happened in other sectors - in the ultra-orthodox community. They didn't work, they just had a lot of children that the others - the public - the private sector - had to pay for. And when you cut it, I can say - you don't become very popular".

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