For education and more security personnel: State funding for the Central Council of Jews will be almost doubled

The Central Council of Jews will receive more funding from the state in the future. The Federal Council approved the on Friday Increase in state funding from 13 to 22 million euros per year. In particular, this is intended to strengthen educational and remembrance work as well as the security of Jewish communities.

The Bundestag unanimously decided to increase state benefits in October. The corresponding state treaty was signed in April by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and Central Council President Josef Schuster. Part of the money will go to the Jewish Academy in Frankfurt am Main. A Another part is to go into a nationwide training program for security personnel at Jewish institutions.

The first state contract between the government and the Central Council with agreed services amounting to five million euros was signed in 2003. In 2019, the then Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) and Central Council President Schuster signed In addition, a state treaty for Jewish military pastoral care, which, after around 100 years, once again provided an institutional basis for the work of rabbis in the German military was placed.

The Central Council of Jews is the umbrella organization of the Jewish communities in Germany. According to its own information, it currently has 105 congregations with around 100,000 members. (epd)