25nis becomes a fight

The government has been putting together, at the initiative of the Haredi MKs, a plan to give a life insurance policy to every avreich. The policy would be under some sort of group rate, making each individual policy cheaper, along with not requiring each avreich to get a physical (the insurance companies work these group policies with the assumption that x number in the group are healthy enough and will live long enough to cover for the x number that will have earlier medical problems leading to death).

As the plan is now being put together, it turns out that there is an argument - among the Haredi MKs - as to who should pay for it.  Deputy Minister Itzik Cohen is putting together the plan and is going to have each avreich pay 25nis monthly out of his kollel stipend to cover the insurance payment. Minister Litzman and MK Gafni are opposed to the avreichim having this fee deducted from their stipends and want the government to allocate more money to pay for it separately.
source: Kooker, Calcalist

I don't think 25nis per avreich per month is enough money to really fight over, in either direction. It is not going to break the government's back to add another 25nis to their outlay per person, nor will it kill (pun intended) each avreich to pay the 25nis for the future benefit like any normal person would have to.

I do wonder though why with all the fighting and tough negotiating for coalition agreements back in the day after the last elections they did not throw this in there as well. And, considering how strict the Haredi MKs have been with every letter i the agreements being followed strictly, why do they have an argument now - can't the government say we have kept every letter of every word we agreed to and this isn't in there, so you have no right to demand more money?

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