A plan to transfer some $20 million from secular to religious schools in Israel will soon be submitted to a Knesset committee, according to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. A member of Knesset from the Labor Party, Ophir Pines, said the transfer would be the equivalent of switching 700 job slots to the religious school system.
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