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This is not how you handle the cost of living: the government has proven that it remembers what education is, but not for free - voila! news

2023-05-01T14:45:12.604Z


The good news in the program presented yesterday by Netanyahu, Kish and Smotrich is that the government was able to prove that it remembers other things besides the legal revolution. But this program does not solve the problem from the root, and besides making bombastic statements with the word "free", it only discriminates against the middle class again


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Let's start with the good news: after countless statements, announcements, speeches and rebukes, ecstatically repeating the phrase "legal reform" in all possible contexts, the Israeli government has proven that it remembers the term it removed from the cycle four months ago: the cost of living.



On the face of it, this seems to be the greatest achievement of the first phase of the "free education program up to the age of three", presented yesterday by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Education.

Education will be there, but free?

to very few.

Is this a real cost of living treatment?

Definately not.



This program does not solve the problem from the root.

The treatment of the cost of living is not to put a Band-Aid on a wound, and to make bombastic statements with the word "free" that inflames Israelis, but to promote a broad strategic plan in the field of education.

A program that includes proper wages for assistants, the establishment of a network of dormitories across the country, close supervision of the contents, and differential help for all strata of the population, while finding a reliable budget source.

The Prime Minister at the presentation of the program, last night (photo: official website, Alex Kolomoisky)

Parents of tender toddlers, who pay NIS 5,000 or more per month for a private daycare center, if they manage to find one at all and one that works on Fridays in particular, have been waiting for this sweet election promise since the day the government was formed, and the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.



The first stage of the "free education program" does "cheat" the working parents NIS 940 per month for each child of the aforementioned ages, which is a nice addition by all accounts, but it covers less than a quarter of the monthly amount they pay to kindergarten per month and they expect a few more Such good years.

So there is no "free" here, not even close to free.



The decision to subsidize only the symbol dormitory, with a heavy subsidy of 1700 shekels per child, makes a difference.

Not only that 80% of the children cannot be accepted because of the income test or because there is no place, this program discriminates against them.

As always, this time too the middle class did not enjoy the benefit and was left out.

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Children in kindergarten (Photo: Flash 90, Moshe Shai)

The Prime Minister solemnly promised to allocate two billion shekels for the construction of new day care centers (5 billion shekels is the cost of the entire program), so that within five years every parent can put their child in a subsidized day care center.

Here two difficult issues arise: where will the treasury raise two billion shekels, when the deficit is deepening and tax collection is decreasing?

Or in other words, what is the budgetary source of this indulgence?

And the second issue, what movie is someone living in who thinks that dozens of dormitories can be established here in five years, according to the light rail.



"Improving the quality of care in the licensed dormitories" is another promise that is difficult to fulfill. Ask the assistants what they think about it. Discussions are still underway in their WhatsApp groups Around the poor wage increases they received in the collective agreement and if possible scrape another hundred shekels from somewhere.



If this statement came to neutralize the day of paralysis planned for next Thursday, under the sign of "equal burden", Netanyahu did the opposite.

The protestors who took to the streets are the parents of children between the ages of zero and three who received a negative answer from the Sergeant's dormitory, because "they do not meet the criteria", and parents of the 6-12 year olds who are still waiting for the credit points you promised them and will arrive, God willing, after the budget is approved.

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Source: walla

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