Millions Diverted From School Guards: UJC officials acknowledge less than half of $20 million raised for security in Israel now slated for that purpose

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: October 11, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Only $8 million of the $20 million raised from American Jews to provide security guards for Israel's schoolchildren will be used for that purpose, The Jewish Week has learned.

"Something doesn't smell good," said Hilik Goldstein, a spokesman for the Union of Local Authorities, which is hiring the guards for Israel's 124 municipalities and who revealed the funding cutback.

"We thought that all the $20 million would go directly to hiring security guards," Goldstein said. "But that's not to be. I'm not saying the $12 million has vanished, but I don't know what will be with it."

That disclosure ...

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