Education Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Naftali Bennett and Deputy Minister (Yahadut Hatorah) Meir Porush on Tuesday morning, 1 Rosh Chodesh Adar I visited educational institutions in Yavne. Bennett used the opportunity to lash out at his predecessor, Shai Piron of Yesh Atid, stating he will not permit continued discrimination against chareidim. While not mentioning Piron by name, it was clear that his remarks were directed at him.
Also accompanying the ministers were the ministry’s Head of Chareidi Chinuch Itzik Zahavi and CEO of Chinuch Atzmai Eliezer Sorotzkin. The visits to chareidi schools will continue for a number of days after chareidi school administrators announced they are boycotting the ministry’s chareidi unit.
Bennett asked about the school and the chareidi education system, speaking to school faculty in an effort to better understand this system.
Bennett stated “In recent years the atmosphere has not always been sympathetic to the chareidi tzibur and this era is over. My policy is clear. I care about every child including the children in the chareidi network no less than all the others. They deserve equality, not discrimination. I am here to learn as we are opening a new page in relations with the chareidi tzibur”.
Zahavi told those present that from his perspective, his unit was opening a new page in relations with the chareidi education system.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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It’s Fair Share, not Fare Share. Fare is what you pay to ride the bus.
For this relationship to flourish there is necessity for respectful communication from both sides.
Thank you MK Bennet for beginning the process.
Remember parnossa comes from the One Above not from the Zionist enterprise or Bennett.
The question is are they going to stop sending “supervisors” who are trying to get rid of a lot of the yiras Shamayim in the traditional Chareidi curriculum. Recently the Vaad HaRabbonim acting under the guidance of the Gedolim gave instructions to ignore these “supervisors” and not cooperate with them in any way. Also to boycott meetings convened by the Edu Ministry for Chareidi administrators. So are Bennet and Zahavi just trying to do some damage control and use PR to stem the intense counter-reaction to their previous heavy-handed tactics? Zahavi was appointed over the strenuous objections of the Charedi MKs because he has no connection with the Chareidi world. Keep your eyes open.