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Feb 1, 2011
Four Kollels Disqualified From Funding
After the recent discovery of a massive level of kollel fraud, with a few certain kollels registering non-existent people, along with forging identity cards of people not registered and registering them, and collecting money for those people, many kollels were concerned about threats of ramped up levels of investigation and inspection.
Since then the Ministry of Education has been sending letters to kollels and informing them of the rules, and that they are subject to inspection at any time. Bechadrei reported that recently inspectors went to Bet Shemesh to check out a bunch of kollels. By the end of the series of inspections, four kollels had been punished and removed from the books, no longer to receive funding from the ministry, due to too many registered avreichim not being present.
One of the avreichim is quoted as having responded to the news by saying "this is a further escalation. Today we suffered a serious blow. The Rosh Kollel never imagined that the inspection would come so quickly - he only received the letter two days ago."
Wow - they were only given two days notice that they have to show up to kollel... how unfair..
To his credit, the head of the division of MoE carrying out the inspections said that it is clear that it is a very small minority [of kollels] that are staining the name of all the good lomdei torah, and the overwhelming majority of lomdim and kollels are not connected at all to this type of situation in any way.
Since then the Ministry of Education has been sending letters to kollels and informing them of the rules, and that they are subject to inspection at any time. Bechadrei reported that recently inspectors went to Bet Shemesh to check out a bunch of kollels. By the end of the series of inspections, four kollels had been punished and removed from the books, no longer to receive funding from the ministry, due to too many registered avreichim not being present.
One of the avreichim is quoted as having responded to the news by saying "this is a further escalation. Today we suffered a serious blow. The Rosh Kollel never imagined that the inspection would come so quickly - he only received the letter two days ago."
Wow - they were only given two days notice that they have to show up to kollel... how unfair..
To his credit, the head of the division of MoE carrying out the inspections said that it is clear that it is a very small minority [of kollels] that are staining the name of all the good lomdei torah, and the overwhelming majority of lomdim and kollels are not connected at all to this type of situation in any way.
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Wow - they were only given two days notice that they have to show up to kollel... how unfair..
ReplyDeleteI think the bigger issue is that the Rosh Kollel was only given two days notice that he's not allowed to lie. And only one full day had passed since he heard mid'var sheker tirchak in shul.
well, it's a lot to ask someone to rearrange their schedule in two days. Have rachmanus!
ReplyDeleteThose "exclusive photos" are pretty weird - why are there children in the picture?
ReplyDeleteAnd only one full day had passed since he heard mid'var sheker tirchak in shul.
ReplyDeleteThat's assuming that he showed up....
רמב"ם הלכות תלמוד תורה ג:י
ReplyDeleteוכל תורה שאין עימה מלאכה, סופה
בטילה; וסוף אדם זה, שיהא מלסטם את הבריות
Ephraim,
ReplyDeleteWhy is this relevant? We're not talking about Torah without melacha here; since the kollels (allegedly) registered non-existent people or people who didn't show up, we're not even talking about Torah!
Well Yoni following your comment, of course the ultimate defense here is that the government isn't real anyway.
ReplyDeleteyoni - I understood ephraim's comment as saying that when a person only learns and does not also work, it eventually leads to deception and stealing, as it did in this case.
ReplyDeleteanonymous from 11:58 - I have no idea what they are about. I could not figure out what the pictures had to do with the article.
ReplyDeleteRafi G.,
ReplyDeleteI understood Ephraim's point. But the problem in this situation is that there weren't even people learning!
perhaps the phrase is referring even to a communal level. when the community learns without work alongside it, it leads to...
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