Housing Minister Zeev Elkin of New Hope and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked of Yamina are trying to stop the establishment of a new chareidi quarter of 13,000 apartments in the secular city of Kiryat Gat. Elkin emphasized that he does not oppose individual chareidim moving there.
Although the pair do not oppose the establishment of a new chareidi town, Shapir, adjacent to Kiryat Gat, there are fears that the hostile government may scupper that plan also.
Elkin and Shaked agreed to establish a new chareidi town named Kesif in the Negev. But noting that a plan to build a town of 100,000 residents there collapsed 15 years ago, chareidi representatives argue that the place is not attractive to the chareidi public.
Meanwhile, Oded Forer, minister of the Development of the Periphery, Negev and Galil, said he planned to cut budgets allocated to chareidi towns by his predecessor, Aryeh Deri.
“We will change the wrong perpetrated by the previous government,” Forer announced. “If in the past the municipality of Bnei Brak received $680,000 for cultural events and the municipality of Akko received only $93,000, that needs to be changed.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
Chareidim will do well to remember this. BTW you cant compare Akko to Bnei Brak, not in sheer number of residents, not in other ways as well. This government wants to rid Yahadus from Israel. However, Rabos Machshavos… They would do well to remember what happened to others who tried the same thing….
The criminal self-appointed judges in Israel are about to close down the large Yesh Grocery store in Israel because the highly inflated priced Supersol (grocery) claim that Yesh lowers their prices for chareidim.