- The shortfall affects over 80 municipalities, Eldar said
at a meeting of town mayors, which are in effect paying for the deficit
of the national government.
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- "It is a shame that the Minister of the Interior
failed to heed our warnings, did not see what the Bank of Israel saw, and
collaborated in a policy that has brought about a general system failure,"
Eldar said. As for the Minister's policy of uniting various municipalities,
Mr. Eldar said that it is mistaken, as it will increase municipal expenses
and deepen their deficits. "I hope," he continued, "that
this time, unlike previous instances, the Minister of the Interior will
turn around in time."
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- Other civil servants working without pay ? in some cases
for more than a year ? are the Religious Council employees. Ahead of the
Passover holiday, marking freedom from servitude, Chief Rabbi and Rishon
Letzion Rabbi Shlomo Amar told Israel Radio today that the situation of
such employees is "worse than that of slaves under Jewish Law."
As the rabbi noted, slave-owners in the ancient Jewish commonwealths were
obligated by law to provide for all the needs of the slave and of his family,
to the level enjoyed by the slave-owner himself. In the situation of unpaid
workers today, Rabbi Amar said, no one is taking care of the employees'
families at all.
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- Rabbi Amar also warned that if the Prime Minister will
not meet with him to solve the issue of unpaid wages, then Rabbi Amar and
his fellow Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger will hold a protest vigil outside
the Prime Minister's offices in Jerusalem.
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- http://www.israelnationalnews.org/news.php3?id=60192
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