Israeli stipend offends Shoah survivors

  Olmert approves budget for Holocaust survivors.

Prime minister approves plan to improve living conditions of 120,000 elderly Holocaust survivors living in Israel. ‘These people are old and they must be helped at once, not in 2008,’ chairman of Shoah survivors’ group says .  (see more)

Published: 
07.30.07, 15:12 / Israel News

  Shoah survivors bash Olmert proposal.
By SHARON WROBEL
Holocaust survivor organization heads on Wednesday rejected the government stipend granting a monthly allowance of NIS 83 to 120,000 survivors, and called upon all organizations, survivors and their families to join their protest entitled “March of the Living,” planned for Sunday. (see more) 

   Israeli stipend offends Holocaust survivors. Government would pay $20 a month to those who are destitute.  “..Beginning next year, the amount allocated for 120,000 needy survivors, about half the total number still living in Israel, will be $28 million annually, according to Olmert’s statement. That works out to an average of $20 a month for each survivor.”  (see more)

Comptroller to probe treatment of Holocaust survivors by gov’  t...In a tempestuous and emotional meeting, several of the group representatives raised suggestions for extreme forms of protest, including self-immolation in front of the Knesset. The representatives are considering asking the German government to pressure Israel to change its position and are also weighing the possibility of asking large Jewish organizations to sever ties with Olmert. (see more)

                                                

 

Photos from from the Holocaust survivors protest meeting on 8.1.2007 

(see here).

"The last Holocaust survivor (see here)

UPDATE. (8.3.2007)

 PMO, survivors meet, agree to negotiate new allowance:

  ...Participants of the meeting said that it was clear, if not declared, to the sides that the original amount offered by the government (NIS 83 per month) was off the agenda, and a new solution would be negotiated based on recommendations made by an interministerial committee, headed by Itzkovich, which had recommended an allowance of NIS 1,040 per month...(see here)

                                               
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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