Netanyahu: Education Reform Requires Return to Jewish Tradition
(IsraelNN.com) Head of the opposition in the Knesset, Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) today expressed his view that education reform in Israel requires a return to Jewish tradition and awareness. He made the comments at the eighth nationwide conference of Emunah, held in Jerusalem. Emunah is the leading national-religious women’s organization and one of the three largest women’s organizations in Israel.
“Despite the fact that a lot of money is being invested in education, we are suffering failures…. There must be investment in the traditions of Israel. That is the only way,” Netanyahu said, “to gather strength and to fix the situation - by a return to the traditions of Israel and a deepening of Jewish awareness.”
MK Netanyahu also touched on the unilateral withdrawal from Gush Katif and Samaria in August 2005: “Today, everyone understands that the only ‘disengagement’ that occurred was from reality, and that reality refuses to ‘disengage’ from us.” He went on to say that such a flight from reality also led to the injustice done to the families uprooted from Gaza and Samaria by the Israeli government.
This is indeed an urgent priority for the future of Israel.
But there is no chance of it happening while Comrade Yuli Tamir is Minister of Education.
She may not be as egregiously vulgar as one-time Minister of Education Shulamit Aloni, but her principles and goals are little different.
And remember when Meretz smoothie Amnon Rubenstein was Minister of Education and announced his goal of “replacing archaic Jewish values with modern universalist values”.
The education system has for too long been perverted by control of the anti-Judaic set.
It is long past time for it to be rescued.
Comment by ATimeToSpeak
— September 13, 2006 @ 11:36 pm
It is so easy for the Likud old-guard professional politicians to talk about nationalism when they are not hanging onto cabinet seats for dear life. Limor Livnat, the previous ME, for instance, had lofty ideals of nationalist Jewish education, but then voted for the Disengagement like Netanyahu. It’s all sheer hypocrisy since there is nothing more “national” than hanging on to the land that was promised to the Jews.
Comment by zionsake
— September 14, 2006 @ 1:45 pm