ISRAEL — Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer on Monday called on the heads of the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel to promote employment among Haredi men and women in order to minimize the prevalent poverty among them.
During a conference for the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, Fischer said that the low employment rate among the Haredi men and women was the root cause of for the high incidence of poverty, higher than any other sector in Israeli society, including the notoriously poor Arab sector.
Bank of Israel Chief to Ultra-Orthodox Community: Get jobs!
ISRAEL — Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer on Monday called on the heads of the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel to promote employment among Haredi men and women in order to minimize the prevalent poverty among them.
During a conference for the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, Fischer said that the low employment rate among the Haredi men and women was the root cause of for the high incidence of poverty, higher than any other sector in Israeli society, including the notoriously poor Arab sector.
According to Fischer, 60 percent of the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were defined as poor in 2008, and that number has only grown since. “There is an enormous pool of human resources in the Haredi sector, which, harnessed, could contribute another driving force for growth to the economy, while also minimizing the poverty,” he said.
Addressing the general financial situation in Israel, Fischer said that the economy is beginning to display signs of growth over recent months, with exports up in May and June and imports up during last month as well. The Bank of Israel combined index has risen for the first time in 11 months, he added.
“We have a strong economy, but unemployment is rising and there is also inflation in Israel,” Fischer said. “Right now, we just don’t know when the market will begin growing again.”
Boruch N. Niissim HaKohaine Hoffinger
BS”D
Question, for whom is the economy strong? Arabs to construct housing?
I have two relatives: One in computers who couldn’t find work in Eretz HaKodesh and is here in New York City working, and the other with a work history, couldn’t find a job for three months.
Who’s going to hire older Yidden?
My sentiment exactly
“Get jobs!”
Yankel613
Thank God Chabad is against learning in Kollel for more than the first year/year in a half of marriage.
anon
The Rabbis need to encourage their followers to get jobs, and training programs need to be put in place.
rachel
yeah, Yankel, it is a good thing chabad is so much better than other jewish sects. Geez, chabad aspries to just making enough of a living to still qualify for gov’t sevices. We r no better, we should try and help those who need it and stop acting as the judges. Let’s not delay Moshiach any longer!
David
Yankel613 wrote:
Thank God Chabad is against learning in Kollel for more than the first year/year in a half of marriage.
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But by us, if you do go out and earn an honest living, you are looked down upon, for not being on Shlichus. And then we have all those who wait for years to go on Shlichus but have no luck doing so, and work odd-jobs, or not much at all… so please, don’t judge others so fast!
To Yankel613 who wrote .....
Thank G-d Chabad is against learning in Kollel for more than the first year/year in a half of marriage.
Are you crazy? We are never against Learning in Kollel for life. We have a different understanding .. while in Golus of what must be done. But you should hope and pray for the day .. which YOU COULD learn 24/7 in a Kollel.
We are in Golus … and can’t sit 24/7 in Golus … but for you to use the words THANK G-d??
I hope you will re-read the last Holocho concerning for Moshiach .. where it says … we never desired for Moshiach to conquer the world .. but we desire Moshiach so we can sit all day, and KNOW Hashem etc etc etc
May you and I go out of our personal Golus… towards the ultimate Geulah ….so we can learn 24/7 with the Rebbe!
Yankel613
Unless your parents are shaluchim-you have less than a 5% chance of becoming one. It would be better that right after sheva brachos, to either start looking for full time employment, enter a training program, or start learning torward aworthwhile college degree. (business, health care, education etc) To waste time in Kollel will only put you behind the 8 ball when you finish and you will have no skills.
Yankel613
David
Its agaisnt Halacha for a man to not work and instead be supported by his wife. It also teaches the children the wrong values.
YitzyM
Thank G-d Chabad is against learning in Kollel for more than the first year/year in a half of marriage
I agree that becoming a shaliach is very unlikely.Unfortunately a large number of men really have no other job possibilities. It would be better for 95% of married men to start training or college the day after sheva brochas.
Avi
What the headline should say is: GET AN EDUCATION!
Without a proper eduction or training in some specialized field or another, they will be condemned to working low paying blue collar jobs which yield low incomes, making it easier to just collect welfare.
CharedimWannaWork
Having wanted at one time to live in EY, I contacted the national business assistance program there as they were looking for business proposals. Mine was a proposed program to train charedim for jobs related to hi-tech and marketing and then to assist graduates of the program in finding work and even establishing small businesses.
Twice I sent it in, twice I was ignored even though their site said they would contact whoever sends in a proposal.
Why? Because at the end of the day, if charedim would enter the workforce, their influence on chilonim would be positive and a wave of tshuva would result. It would also put an end to the troublemakers, as everyone else would be too busy to support them and they would fall apart with no support.
The medina does not want that, and for all they scream, they want to make sure charedim remain outside of society so that they will always be regarded as third class citizens and that the Torah lifestyle will be seen as unpleasant and fanatical.
Plenty of charedim, except the most isolated, want to work and would be willing to learn how. It is the medina, the leftists, who want to keep charedim outside of “Israeli” society.
As for me, I decided not to seek residence in EY until such time as Moshiach brings us all there. They made it clear they don’t want my kind, and I don’t need to live as a third class citizen in a poorly governed secular state that defiles kedushas Eretz Yisroel as it has every moment since its establishment.
Wife support
Yankel613 wrote:
David
Its agaisnt Halacha for a man to not work and instead be supported by his wife. It also teaches the children the wrong values.
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That’s where R’ Akiva went “wrong”, by having wife Rochel support him.
Likewise numerous gedolie yisroel – all acting against yankel’s halacha
CM
Isn’t written that a father that does not teach his son a trade is teaching him how to steal, is about time everyone teach or send his child to a school to learn a trade.
Rabbis had Jobs
If you look in the Gemara (and as illustrated in a song “shabbos Kodesh” on Yiddish Gems) you’ll see that the Tanaim and Amoraim had jobs. Some were butchers, Blacksmiths etc..Maybe some of them who were full time community leaders did not.
MitzvahShmueli
Even if you are “Chassidish” you can still go get a college degree/ or job training. Learning is something you do before or after a full days work.
gods right hand man
The reality is technology has made it unneccessary for the chosen to work like average joe’s and the economist’s have yet to develop a formula that appeases everyone and everyone won’t be happy all the time
i mean acadamia isnt for everyone regardless of what you want
the root of economic problems begin when people live beyond their means
most hareidim live within the means a jewish nation can and should provide to the torah scholars that have been flexible for years on issues
a civil war can be good for the torah and god
and the losers will be abba eban’s and the ofra haza’s
if you want a big mac go to usa
if you want prociutto go to italy
if you want to violate the shabbos don’t do it on my holy land
Andrew from Moscow
Hi! Surely you should get any jobs. Poverty is not a good thing.