Immigrants from Yugoslavia since Hareidi men don't work - Yahadut Hatorah leader Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf offers solutions

Immigrants from Yugoslavia since Hareidi men don’t work – Yahadut Hatorah
leader Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf offers solutions
Dr. Aaron Lerner 17 September 2022

In a sweeping interview published in the Friday edition of Haaretz Market
Week, the new head of Yahadut Hatorah, Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf shared his
ideas for solving Israel’s problems and more:

#1. That Hareidi men lack job skills: “Nu, that’s why we are bringing in
immigrants from Yugoslavia.”

#2. That living off of payments rather than men in households working is
difficult: “We should add more products to price control supervision and
make a basket of products which are accessible to everyone in the State.
You cannot give NIS 900 via National Insurance and then say that you start
the month with expenses of NIS 1,500. ”

#3. Why Hareidi boys don’t have to learn English in school: “You think that
the younger generation doesn’t know English? They know it. They learn via
books, a course. They learn by themselves. We do not think that not
learning the basic skills is a detriment, and we do not think that if they
are needed that it should be in school. And this is true for many things.
If you reach the age of 20 and decide to learn high tech, that’s OK.”

#4. Why the Ministry of Education should not supervise Hareidi schools:
“There are tens of thousands of educational institutions in Israel, why are
only Hareidis required to get a license?” (reporter noted that all schools
need a license.)

#5. How Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf benefited from not knowing English himself:
when he visited South Africa to raise money the receptionist at offices of
the Morgenstern family in Johannesburg was so frustrated by the inability to
communicate with him that instead of screening him out like other fund
raisers she let him go up to the executive offices.

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