Israel angers US Jewish charities

"Israeli officials have told us that the Finance Ministry is budgeting basic social services at a percentage of their known costs, telling local authorities to raise the money from overseas donors," an American Jewish official told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

"In a country with a budget surplus of billions of shekels, this is very hard to understand, especially since the American Jewish community desperately needs to subsidize Jewish education in the US," the official, from an influential New York-based Jewish organization, said angrily. "We need this money, and if Israel doesn't, where do they come off?" Read entire article.