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300 senior  economists have warned in a letter of the grave damage that will be caused by the transfer of unprecedented sums to to the Haredim and called on the government to reconsider. Among other things, they said that the Haredi public’s inability to integrate into the modern job market will hurt, first and foremost, the Haredi public’s economic situation, as it will lower the chances of ultra-Orthodox adults  earning a dignified living , increasing poverty among the community. KAN’s Mark Weiss spoke with one of the economists who signed the letter, Prof Avishai Braverman,  an economics professor who held a senior position as an economist at the World Bank  and served as  Chair of the Knesset Finance Committee, as a Labor MK  and was an Israel Prize laureate in 2020 for Lifetime Achievement for his work as president of Ben-Gurion University. (Photo:Courtesy)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.