Papal Visit Purim Millennium Snow in Jer. According to police, the scam allegedly net three Mea She'arim institutions a million shekels a year by reporting names of soldiers and secular youths as among their students. Zemach denies the accusations. Police said they had spoken to 17 persons named in the lists who denied ever setting foot in the yeshivot. The Torah Leshma, Etzim Veprachim, and Shai Haolamot non-profit organizations ran the yeshivot, which allegedly received some NIS 2,000 a month for each name.
Police suspect the scam was run in past years as well.
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