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- The Yesh Atid party, led by Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, plans to appeal to the High Court of Justice to block a transfer of NIS 800 million to ultra-Orthodox institutions.
- The transfer was mistakenly approved during a controversial parliamentary maneuver.
- Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara halted the transfer, citing likely violations of High Court rulings on benefits for draft-evading Haredi men.
- Yair Lapid condemned the budget passage as the greatest theft in the history of the country.
- United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni criticized the attorney general's decision as criminal and biased against the ultra-Orthodox.
