In the video: The last residents are evacuated from Sderot/Yinir Yagana
The mood at the cabinet meeting today was stormy.
The Minister of Tourism, Haim Katz, raised his voice and demanded the immediate establishment of the Exceptions Committee for evacuated residents who have left the hotels and wish to return, as promised by the Director General of the Ministry of Tourism, Yossi Shelley, at the end of February.
"If the government does not approve the establishment of the committee today," Katz said, "I will return the handling of the evacuees to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
that they will deal with a soldier who goes away for the weekend, and has nowhere to be."
The need to establish the Committee of Exceptions arose after the government decided to encourage the residents of the south to return to their homes by July, excluding ten localities near the Gaza border, through a one-time grant. According to the government's decision, who If he leaves the hotel, he will not be able to return to it at the state's expense.
The committee is supposed to respond to cases that are not specified in the law, such as the soldier we described earlier, a woman giving birth who wishes to return to a calm environment without alarms, a family who returned to their settlement and because of the children's mental difficulties wants to return to the hotel.
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Two weeks have passed since residents began to return to their homes, contrary to the agreements, an exception committee was not established/Flash 90, Haim Goldberg
The role of the Exceptions Committee, which includes two representatives of the Treasury, the legal advisor of the Ministry of Tourism and the person responsible for the accommodation facilities, should allow evacuees to choose specific times to stay in state-funded hotels and the rest of the time to receive a financial grant from the state. The state's payment costs to the hotels will be cut by 50 %, in the cases of evacuated soldiers, children and youth in boarding schools, and reservists who do not return home during the week.
Two weeks have passed since residents began to return to their homes, and despite requests from the Ministry of Tourism, the committee was not established
. He firmly refused and said that he is not willing to refuse an evacuee who requests to return to the hotel and whose request is approved, due to a lack of budget. Wala learned that the government's decision is in the final stages of drafting, and will likely be approved soon in a telephone poll of the government ministers.
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