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Schools, stipends trigger Israeli religious battle

By Alliance Alert

Daily Times: "Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the Bible instead of entering the work force . . . The vitriolic debate has created the first serious threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s governing coalition. His ultra-Orthodox partners are threatening to topple the government if subsidies to their constituents are cut. The dispute goes far beyond money, touching on the character of the Jewish state in a modern world and the ultra-Orthodox community?s place in it."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).