Israel to revise Holocaust survivors' allowance plan

Israel’s government will revise a widely-criticised plan to grant needy Holocaust survivors a monthly allowance of £10 (€15), officials said today, after survivors said the plan was laughable.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the plan this week in response to concern about poverty among the some 240,000 Israelis who survived the Nazi genocide, saying he was “correcting a 60-year-old blight”,