Following an incorrect calculation, the Israeli government is expected to increase the budget for yeshivos and religious institutions by $3.84 million beyond sums already transferred this year.
Yair Lapid and MK Avigdor Lieberman immediately condemned the idea, arguing that it will takes money away from children with special needs and benefits the chareidim at their expense.
A hot topic of discussion was whether the extra hundreds of shekels per yungerman should go to their personal accounts or ease the financial burden of their roshei kollel.
Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein ruled that if a kollel pays according to the amount allocated by the government with a little added, the extra money should go to the yungeleit. But if a kollel pays a fixed stipend regardless of the sum paid by the government, even when the government sometimes pays less, then the additional amount belongs to the roshei kollel.
Nonetheless, even in that case, he advised giving two-thirds of the sum to yungeleit and a third to the roshei kollel, explaining that the siyatta diShmaya that increased the government funding was probably due to the zechus of both parties.
{Matzav.com Israel}
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