Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has approved a budget increase of 15 million shekels for students in youth villages.
About 20,000 students in Israel, the vast majority of them at risk, live and are educated in youth villages. For more than 20 years, no budgetary adjustments have been made to meet the needs of the youth villages. Member of Knesset Meirav Ben-Ari of Kahlon's Kulanu party, together with the Public Forum for Youth Villages and Boarding Schools, paved the way for the budget increase.