[Nachum]

What a bunch of insipid crap.

Everybody is feeling the budget crunch in Israel. Try sending a kid to a Jewish school there too. Costs a lot.

AP = Associated Propaganda

[Olog-hai]

More like “abominable propaganda”. This screed is deliberately trying to put a wedge between Jews and Christians, barely masquerading as “news”.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hard for me, an outsider, to figure out just what the facts are. The article states that "... Israel moves to cut money to Christian schools it continues to fully fund large private school networks that cater to ultra-Orthodox Jews."

I realize they're saying "ultra Orthodox Jews," (Haredi?) which presumable does not' mean "regular Orthodox Jews" or "Conservative" or "Reform" or "Secular" Jews (which I think about 80% of Israeli Jews are) or whatever else there is.

So it looks like "ultra Orthodox," specifically, are being favored --- at least that's what this article implies.

But it makes no sense for Israel, struggling with a budget crunch, to suggest that the Christian schools become public schools. Then the Israeli taxpayers would be shouldering, not a fraction of the financial burden, but ALL of the burden.

How does that solve the government budget woes!?