Jonathan Lis of Ha'aretz reports:
The National Insurance Institute is paying tens of millions of shekels to ultra-Orthodox youngsters on the basis of false declarations, an Education Ministry examination shows. Some 30 percent of ultra-Orthodox men checked over the past five years lied about their economic situation or about the institutions they allegedly studied in and were not eligible for the money, according to figures submitted yesterday to a Knesset team supervising implementation of the Tal Law. The NII pays an annual NIS 135 million to 11,000 men who were exempted from military service due to their studies, and the state pays NIS 975 million to yeshivas on the basis of student name lists, including false entries.
[Hat Tip: Joel Katz]