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Over 90,000 Yeshiva Students Face Funding Freeze After Israeli Supreme Court Ruling

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First reported by Calcalist · 3 hours ago

What happened

Following a Supreme Court ruling on military conscription, the Israeli Ministry of Education has frozen stipend payments to over 90,000 yeshiva students, halting about 600 million shekels in funding for 2026.

01More than 90,000 yeshiva students and scholars have had their stipends frozen.
02This group constitutes roughly half of all eligible yeshiva students.
03The funding freeze follows a Supreme Court ruling on military conscription.
04The Ministry of Education reported the freeze to the Finance Committee.
05The financial impact is estimated at around 600 million shekels for 2026.

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