The child allowance payments are one of the methods used by haredi families to survive when their chief breadwinners – haredi men – choose not to work and instead study full time in yeshivas well into middle age, if not longer.
Above: Member of Knesset Rabbi Yisrael Eichler
Haredi MK Wants Government To Double Child Stipends
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Member of Knesset Rabbi Yisrael Eichler of the Ashkenazi haredi Untied Torah Judaism Party reportedly wants the government to double child allowance payments to families in the Jewish months of Nissan and Tishrei, months in which major Jewish holidays fall – Passover in Nissan; and Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot/Shmemini Atzeret in Tishrei.
Eichler wants the government to give families extra money to make the holidays more enjoyable and to offset general cuts made in child allowances earlier this year.
Dr. Yitzchak Kadmon of the National Council of the Child and Israel’s national insurance Bituach Leumi both claim the cuts have put more than 40,000 children into poverty.
The child allowance payments are one of the methods used by haredi families to survive when their chief breadwinners – haredi men – choose not to work and instead study full time in yeshivas well into middle age, if not longer.
Eichler is noted for his extreme rhetoric, often making outlandish assertions about political enemies, equating the current government with Nazis, and encouraging flamboyant "solutions" to problems that have no possibility of becoming law.