The Knesset voted Wednesday to give initial approval to a law proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev (NU/NRP) that would increase the benefits given to children who lost parents in a terrorist attack.  Benefits that were previously available only to those under the age of 21 will now be given up to the age of 25.  In addition, the law will grant compensation to families that adopted terror attack orphans and lost part of their family income as a result.

The law also intends to grant equal benefits to children who lost both parents in a terrorist attack and those who lost one parent in a terrorist attack and the second under other circumstances.  Orlev explained that the proposed changes were based on recommendations from a Welfare Ministry committee that he had appointed to study the problems facing terror attack survivors.