PHOTOS: Education Minister Bennet And Deputy Minister Porush Opens School Year In Chinuch Atzmai School

(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)

Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Minister Meir Porush opened the school year with a joint tour of the Netivot Moshe School which is affiliated with Chinuch Atzmai. It is located in the Kadima-Tzuran Council.

The Minister and his deputy were received by Head of the Council Shavit Mass, the Director-General of Chinuch Atzmai Rabbi Eliezer Sorotzkin, Deputy Director-General Rabbi Schwartz, the school principals, and the excited students who dedicated a special song for Minister Bennet and his deputy for all of their hard work on behalf of the chareidi tzibur.

Deputy Minister Porush turned to Minister Bennett and said: “When you entered the position, you said, ‘I have four children and from today I am responsible for more than two million children.’

“Throughout the year, you continued conveying this message, that you are the father of two million students. You insisted on opening the school year in the chareidi community which numbers about 400,000 talmidim because it is important to see and hear them and to give them the proper response and assistance.

Minister Bennett said, “On the previous visit, I said that a new spirit is blowing in the Education Ministry toward the chareidi sector, and now I say that a new spirit has already been instilled in the Education Ministry towards the chareidi tzibur.

“More than 90 percent of the schools in the sector have already received licenses, and the five-year process continues, and every child in the chareidi sector is like every child of mine.

“We launched a five-year plan for construction in the chareidi school system and it will manage the deficit that accumulated over the years. My method is not a hammer, but an outstretched hand and each community decides which way it wants to go.

“I loved the boy who spoke here in French. The beauty of the Jewish people is that there are many different approaches, and even if there are disagreements, it is okay, but the chareidi public always mentions the original pole.

“We have no desire to change worldviews in the chareidi sector. We have a desire to give tools in a continuous discourse for proper economic prosperity, all in trust and in love.”