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Nov 26, 2025
fund Hamas, not hostages
Recently the public was shocked to discover that some of the former hostages were forced (by circumstances) to set up crowd fundnig campaigns to raise money to cover costs for their recovery, care and therapies and whatnot.
In light of that, MK Pnina Tamano-Shata (Kachol Lavan) proposed a law to have the government fund each returned hostage, and the family of each dead hostage, to the tune of 4 million shekels. The idea being, their recovery should be dependantupon the success of a crowd funding campaign but they should be taken care of by the State after what they went through.
Today the proposal came to vote. The Coalition voted it down 50-40 thus defeating the law and sending the hostages back to the crowd funding platforms.
I have not seen any explanation, as of the time of this writing, given by members of the Coalition who voted against. If anyone can explain why they voted against, please explain in the comments. Did they think the law should say 6 million or 3 million or 1 million? Do they think they are not responsible to help with their recovery? Or if you saw an explanation given by Coalition members, please point me in that drection.
It seems the government that funded Hamas refuses to also fund its victims.
The government that expanded itself to 25 ministries with tremendous waste wont spend on the hostages.
To be fair, it should be noted that via Bituach Leumi the hostages and families do get an initial sum of 60000nis each, along with 9000nis per month for life, along with some other financial assistance packages for various purposes...
I would really like to hear what the coalition considered bad about this law proposal that they had to oppose it.
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Are you seriously that naive? These things are publicity stunts meant to embarrass the coalition. If you don't know that, you know nothing, or are so blinded by your hate of Bibi that you can't see it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that's a ridiculous amount of money. Which of course will be paid by ordinary shnooks. But hey, if you want to give four million shekels to a hostage, go right ahead.
The government didn't fund Hamas, by the way. Qatar did.
so in other words, the answer to my question is that the government thinks 4 million per hostage is too much money? all this post is was looking for an explanation.
DeletePlease read the first paragraph.
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