Just prior to leaving office, former Education Minister Naftali Bennett signed an ordinance approving a life insurance plan for yungerleit.
Under the new initiative, a sum of 500,000 NIS ($138,390) will be paid to the widow and orphans of married yeshiva students, over a period of fifteen years.
“Every married yeshiva student will pay a minimal sum of 20-30 NIS ($5.54-8.30) each month, and if it becomes necessary, his widow and children will receive a monthly stipend of 5,000 NIS ($1,384) each month for a period of 15 years,” Shas MK Yitzhak Cohen explained when first pushing the plan forward.
Gafni, for his part, had claimed the insurance harms the yeshivas’ budgets.
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