24.05.2011                      20.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 35 des Omer

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Treasury agrees to dramatic hike in city rabbis' wages

A new city rabbi will earn about 80%of what the city's director general's salary is, treasury wage chief tells Knesset Finance C'tee.

The Treasury has agreed to a dramatic increase in the salaries of new city rabbis, a senior Finance Ministry official announced Monday during a meeting of the Knesset's Finance Committee.
“There are huge gaps between the wages of veteran [city] rabbis and new ones, who earn NIS 6,000. They are not allowed to have additional jobs, and their income must be respectable, while at the same time setting a public example,” Treasury Wage Chief Ilan Levin told members of the committee headed by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism)….