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		Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaking at the Knesset Wednesday. (Tomer Neuberg/Jini)

Last update - 23:08 02/01/2008

PM: If Haredi were to manage own schooling, they'd destroy it

By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Haredi, education

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that if the Haredi MKs would be given the opportunity to run the Haredi school system, they would destroy it.

In a special hearing in the Knesset on the current education crisis, ultra-Orthodox MKs attacked the prime minister, and called for the passage of interim readings for the Haredi education budget.

Olmert said in response that "I helped the Haredi schooling in places it needed more help than everyone else together. If, God forbid, you would be running the Haredi schooling, you would ruin it, because you would damage each other."

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The prime minister maintained that "only someone such as myself can give the Haredi education system what it deserves with dignity, without all the internal conflicts. So don't lecture me."

Olmert was referring to the period when he served as mayor of Jerusalem and ran the city in a joint coalition with the ultra-Orthodox.

"The children of Jerusalem always thanked me from the bottom of their heart and told me: 'What luck you aren't ultra-Orthodox.'"

MK Yakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) said in response that "these decrees in Olmert's term are worse than in Shinui's term," referring to the secular political party.

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1.	Olmert is dillusional	23:46	\|	fred	02/01/08

2.	Once again... "ME," every word out of this man`s mouth is "ME."	00:09	\|	bat yam	03/01/08

3.	I Humbly Think Haredim Need More Money	00:27	\|	Yechiel	03/01/08

4.	Really?	00:41	\|	Colin Wright	03/01/08

5.	Here in America all Conservatives agree	01:10	\|	Mark Lincoln	03/01/08

6.	If Olmert were to manage own Government...	01:44	\|	Jon	03/01/08

7.	Takes one to know one	16:46	\|	Not Haredi	03/01/08

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