In April 2013, some three months after elections and the establishment of a new government, the Knesset’s Social Welfare Committee held a heated discussion that is etched deep in Israelis' memories. The agenda focused on the results of a survey conducted by the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Survivors that found 67% of survivors unhappy with the way the government was dealing with their specific needs. Some 22% of respondents even said that the government's handling of Holocaust survivors had deteriorated.
Apart from the jarring statistics, another element that made the debate so hard to forget were the cries of Dora Roth, a Holocaust survivor who asked in the simplest of terms, “What did you do with the money?! Seeing a Holocaust survivor that doesn't have money for food or heat is your disgrace, the disgrace of this house [of parliament]!”