Q&A: Food Vouchers
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Food Vouchers
Question
I saw on Vitamin that Aryeh Deri received a budget for distributing reloadable food vouchers, and there’s a lot of public criticism of it. I assume you share / agree with that criticism.
I understand the criticism, but given the situation—that all prices have gone up and there really is difficulty making it to the end of the month, not only among Haredim—isn’t this, in your opinion, a welcome step?
Answer
I’m not familiar with the details, but if this is an Aryeh Deri operation, one may presume there’s something self-interested and corrupt there. Especially toward his own people, whose poor economic situation is entirely their own fault, and there is no reason at all to support them.