On the other hand, there is a downside in stopping the daycare subsidies for someone who is registered and receives a religion stipend.
Until now you could also be registered for religion studies in some kollel close to home and get money every month for it [on condition that if a phone call came saying there was an inspection, you had to show up immediately, even if it meant taking a taxi there for that purpose], and also be a schnorrer / melamed / scribe paid under the table, or all of the above together, and also get a property-tax discount and also put the children in daycares / after-school programs funded by the state. And that way make a lot of money every month.
And now there is no choice but to stop the religion stipend, declare the jobs, and only that way get the daycare subsidy…
So it comes out that the public loses and won’t be able to make a nice profit the way it did until now.
So why does the Rabbi say to the minister, “More power to him”?

I identify with the sentiment, encouraging people to go out to work without tricks and without shticks,
but is there not something a bit off about doing it from one day to the next?

Why is there something off about it? This is money that was plundered by the Haredi politicians, and the sooner the plundering stops, the better. Obviously, if there is some great benefactor willing to provide temporary funding until the parents get organized, then he is doing something very fine. To find work for people without education (waiter, store clerk, falafel seller, cashier, and the like), you don’t need to search for more than a month.

With God’s help, 28 Tammuz 5781

It seems that the Finance Minister wants the wives of kollel students to behave like Rabbi Yehoshua’s mother, who placed his cradle in the study hall so that his ears would absorb words of Torah from early childhood. Therefore the Finance Minister decided to cut daycare subsidies for the children of kollel students, so that their fathers will take their children’s cradles to the study hall, and thus the verse will be fulfilled for them: “Let your father and your mother rejoice, and let her who bore you be glad” 🙂

Best regards, Simcha Fish”l HaLevi Plankton

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Comment:
What the kollels could do is have a paid rotation of kollel students to take care of the children, and then they could be considered “workers,” or at least “training themselves” for the profession of “infant care” 🙂