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Jun 26, 2025

Interesting psak: paying for gan during war closure

An interesting question arose as a result of the war with Iran. 

As the State of Israel ordered everything to be shut down, pretty similar to the days of Corona, schools and gans also were shut down for about two weeks or so. Schools and gans run by the State followed specific rules and they have procedures in place. The parents of children who sent their kids to private gans, nurseries and kindergartens, ran into a question - should they pay for the two weeks despite not being allowed to send their kids to school or should they not have to pay. 

A rav in RBS D, Rav Yehuda Halevi Rubinstein, came out issuing a psak for these situations.

Rabbi Rubinstein says that payment for the period of forced closure due to the war to private gans and daycare sites should follow the following guidelines..

1. Any days the child was sent to gan must be paid for in full
2. Any days the children were not sent, either because of the ganenet or because of the parents, payment to the tune of 50% should be paid (based on the compromise of the Chasam Sofer)
3. Parents that paid in advance should get a refund according to the above calculation
4. Any ganenet that was paid by the State as restitution for losses caused by the war should refund parents money accordingly (depending on percentages of restitution, etc)





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