[rmlew]

So an attempt to economically squeeze Jewish schools too in order to be taken over by the state justifies the same attempt against Christian schools? Christians should just keep quiet and let the state close down their schools?
I don't think you understand Israel. They have budget issues. Also, they have a big problem with religious anti-nationalists and with the religious who have no skills and limited employment after religious school. They are fed up with welfare for the ungrateful religious.

[Petrosius]

I don't think you understand Israel. They have budget issues. Also, they have a big problem with religious anti-nationalists and with the religious who have no skills and limited employment after religious school. They are fed up with welfare for the ungrateful religious.

Then why put restriction on the fees they can charge? There is more here that you do not want to admit.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"I don't think you understand Israel. They have budget issues."

Explain to me how this makes sense.

Right now the parents whose 30,000 children are attending Catholic schools, pay 3x for their education: tuition + fees + taxes as well. Now the Israeli Ministry of Education wants to LIMIT the amount of fees they can charge to parents. You'd think that if they were concerned about "budget issues," they'd want the Christian schools to collect MORE fees from the parents, and use less tax money.

And then they offer as an alternative, that these should all become public schools--- which means the taxes would be paying, not just some fraction of the cost, but 100% of the cost.

Obviously, his would cost the taxpayers a whole heckuva lot more.

It doesn't look like the solution to a budget problem to me. It looks like a state takeover agenda.