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Cabinet approves budget for diaspora outreach

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 Itongadol.- New non-governmental body to be established to distribute funds to Jewish groups abroad; Lapid sole opposition to measure.

The cabinet today approved the government’s World Jewry Joint Initiative, a program backed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett intended to finance Jewish identity programs around the world to the tune of billions of Dollars over the next two decades.

The initiative, which was first announced at a Jewish Agency convened summit of international Jewish leaders in Jerusalem last November, has been touted by proponents as an overturning of the old Israeli-Diaspora paradigm, in which Israelis negated the legitimacy of Diaspora life and the rest of the Jewish world viewed the Jewish state as a poor relation in need of aid.

“In Israel we typically view the world as a source of aliya and a big fat wallet, and that’s got to change,” Bennett told Jewish leaders during the meeting. “Clearly things have got to change. It’s got to work differently.” The new initiative, he said, will usher in a more collaborative relationship between Israeli and Diaspora Jews.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid voted against the approval of the new program while Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri abstained.

A spokeswoman for Lapid told the Post that while the Minister is supportive of programs like Birthright, which brings young Jews to Israel, he is opposed to sending taxpayer money abroad instead of spending it on local needs.

At the center of the new plan is the establishment of a new, as of yet unnamed, non-governmental corporation composed of representatives of the philanthropic world, the Israeli government and Diaspora communities, which will oversee funding and projects.

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