With coalition backing: a bill to bypass the High Court and subsidise day care for draft-evaders advances
בתמיכת הקואליציה: אושר לקידום החוק למעקף בג"ץ וסבסוד מעונות למשתמטים
Summary
The Knesset is set to vote in first reading on a bill under which day-care subsidies would be set according to a toddler's mother rather than the father, so that a draft-evading father would not cost the family its subsidy. A clause inserted at Finance Minister Smotrich's initiative—paired with a move to bypass the High Court—angered the ultra-Orthodox parties.
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הכנסת צפויה להצביע בקריאה ראשונה על החוק שלפיו הסבסוד למעונות היום ייקבע לפי אימו של הפעוט ולא לפי אביו, כך שאם אביו משתמט מגיוס, הסבסוד לא ייפגע. סעיף שהוכנס להצעה ביוזמת השר סמוטריץ' עורר את זעם המפלגות החרדיות Related dispatches
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