US Shutdown Suspends Military Aid to Israel

The Obama administration’s $3.2 billion annual military aid has been suspended due to the U.S. government shutdown over the debt ceiling. The sum for 2104 was to be transferred to Israel on October 1, but this is not the first time budget crises in the United States have delayed aid to Israel. 

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-shutdown-suspends-military-aid-to-israel/2013/10/06/

Jews very unhappy also because this means no funding for their beloved "Holocaust Museum":

Yet another federally-funded casualty of the government shutdown, now in its second day? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Washington, D.C. institution.

“The Museum is closed to the public due to the federal government shutdown. It will reopen when the federal government resumes operation,” reads a message at the top of the museum’s website, confirming a hypothesis published on this very blog back in April 2011: that a government shutdown is bad for the Jews.

Read more at: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/147530/u-s-holocaust-museum-shuttered-by-shutdown

Germany agrees to give $1billion more to suffering Jews

The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos.

The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $1 billion in funding for home care for Holocaust survivors from 2014-2017. Some of that money — $182 million for 2014 — already had been committed.

In 2015, the amount will rise by 45 percent, to approximately $266 million, and then to $273 million in 2016 and $280 million in 2017.

Source: http://forward.com/articles/177486/germany-agrees-to-pay-b-for-home-care-for-holoca/