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Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools
A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.
By
Gil Gertel
July 26, 2023
‘Mama, are we going to die soon?’ Arab educators grapple with spiking violence
Lacking state support, three Palestinian citizens of Israel share what parents and schools can do to help children exposed to pervasive gun crime.
By
Vera Sajrawi
June 20, 2023
‘Breaking the ghettos’: The struggle to desegregate Tel Aviv’s schools
The city that brands itself a 'liberal haven' is forcing asylum seekers' children into separate, impoverished schools. And the parents are fighting back.
By
Ben Reiff
January 16, 2022
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Palestinians as ghosts: How Israel’s education system normalizes occupation
A study finds that while some high school textbooks touch on Israel's control of the West Bank, students are taught little to nothing about its true nature.
By
Gil Gertel
August 9, 2020
Revealed: Shin Bet controlled Arab schools for decades
Classified documents reveal how, for years, Israel’s internal security service meddled in Arab society’s education system, firing teachers deemed ‘threats’ and employing Shin Bet agents in the Education Ministry. It has long been known that the Shin Bet, Israel’s shadowy internal security service, has been involved in surveillance over the country’s Arab population. Since the very…
By
Edo Konrad
January 21, 2018
Is it ‘unethical’ to oppose the occupation in academia?
A new ‘code of ethics’ commissioned by Israel’s education minister seems to target left-wing politics in universities. The Israeli Education Ministry, headed by far-right politician Naftali Bennett, recently commissioned an ethical code for political conduct in higher education in Israel. The resulting document (Hebrew) is a highly invasive set of political thought controls portrayed as…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
June 12, 2017
Teaching our children Arabic should be elementary
A new study shows that Jewish Israeli teens who studied Arabic in elementary school have a better appreciation for Arab society later on. As the government continues its attacks on Arabic, it is imperative that teachers and parents fight to ensure children learn the language. By Gil Gertel The so-called nation-state bill, which passed its…
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May 16, 2017
In Israel’s education system, ‘democracy’ is a dirty word
The Education Ministry seems to be doing all it can to give teachers the feeling that deep, honest conversations about democracy and equality are not welcome in school. By Gil Gertel The director-general of the Education Ministry published an amendment to its “Educational Discourse on Controversial Issues” guidelines last week. The reason? To impose restrictions on guest lecturers who come and…
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December 18, 2016
Using education to normalize horrific acts of violence
This is how the Israeli education system makes it possible for generation after generation of Israelis to accept the most brutal forms of state violence. By Gil Gertel October provides Israelis a number of opportunities for self examination, one of which happened just a week ago, on October 14. On that night in 1953, 600 Israeli soldiers — half…
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October 23, 2016
No room for occupation in Israel’s civics curriculum
Students who open up the Education Ministry’s new civics textbook won’t find a word about military rule or discrimination against 20 percent of the population. There’s a reason for that. By Gil Gertel Education Minister Naftali Bennett has managed to make some changes in Israel’s civic education curriculum: it is now more religious and less humanistic.…
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January 16, 2016
The uncomfortable context of Israel’s book ban
The decision to prevent high schools from teaching a Jewish-Palestinian love story might sound like an innocent attempt at promoting Jewish continuity. In fact, it’s the sound of Israel’s extreme right going mainstream. Israel’s Education Ministry announced Wednesday that it would ban Israeli high schools from teaching a novel about a love affair between a…
By
Edo Konrad
December 31, 2015
Bennett as education minister: Less science, more Judaism
Bennett’s party website lists promoting ‘love for land and [Jewish] people’ as a top priority; the Education Ministry already announced that fewer classroom hours will be devoted to core subjects like math, language and history. Along with the announcement that Netanyahu finally formed a governing coalition Wednesday night came the anticipated news that Israel’s next…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 7, 2015
We can no longer deny the Holocaust of Libya’s Jews
I wanted to believe that my mother’s cries, who for years woke up in the middle of the night, crying in a mix of Arabic and Italian, were not heard by a single writer of Israeli history. By Yossi Sucary I wanted the believe that the Nazis’ bullets, which struck the heads of my mother’s…
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April 16, 2015
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