In the shadow of the High Court's decision to freeze the transfer of approximately one billion shekels to ultra-Orthodox education, Shas MK Haim Biton said that "We are in the land of Israel and feel as if the Greeks are fighting against us. Today it's forbidden to study Torah, who studies Torah? Thrown in jail. You're a yeshiva student? They take your money. What else needs to happen?" In an interview with "Kol Barama" radio, he added that "The situation is that we are in the period of Greece."