Degel HaTorah rejects any delay to daycare subsidy bill

Degel HaTorah said it will not accept any postponement or rollback after Likud told the ultra-Orthodox parties there is no majority in the Knesset to pass the daycare bill. In its response, the party said it is “standing firmly on this” and will not accept “any delay or retreat.”

The statement said there was a commitment from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud to bring the daycare bill to approval. The legislation is intended to bypass the directives that froze daycare subsidies for yeshiva students.

The bill would change the eligibility criteria for admission to supervised daycare centers and family day-care homes. Under the proposal, the subsidy criterion would depend only on the woman’s employment status, regardless of the man’s occupation.