Since the Israeli government's crackdown on fraud by yeshivas that illegally inflated student rosters with 'students' who did not study in their yeshivas, netting them hundreds of thousands of shekels in fraudulent government subsidies, the overall number of yeshiva students listed with the government by yeshiva has decreased by 8,500.
And that is a drop of 6.5%, as Yediot Achranot reports. Last December there were approximately 130,000 yeshiva students getting subsidies. That number dropped to about 121,000 today.
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[Hat Tip: AEA.]