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Education Minister Tamir’s Primary Concern: Increasing the Quality of Israel’s Education System or Leftist Political Indoctrination?

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Tamir Rips Educational Reform Proposal

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Education Minister Yuli Tamir, speaking at the Beer Sheva Conference of the National Council for the Child, criticized the Treasury’s plan for educational reform for introducing free-market principles into the educational system. She complained that the new proposal would reward teachers, principals, and schools for student performance, and would allow parents to choose their child’s school instead of having it mandated by district. read more

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The Green Line Myth: Leftists Forcing Dogma on Israel’s Children and Youth?

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Knesset Committee Rejects Green Line Order, by Sheera Claire Frenkel (Jerusalem Post)

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The Knesset Education Committee rejected Monday Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s decision to commission new geography textbooks containing maps that delineate the Green Line in a vote of eight to two.

Tamir announced her decision to include the Green Line more than a month ago, arguing that it was important to teach the history of the Green Line, which marks the 1967 borders of Israel, in order to familiarize children with prevailing political concepts. read more

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The Line in the Classroom: Between Instilling Knowledge and Political Indoctrination

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Teach the Green Line, By Evelyn Gordon (Jerusalem Post)

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Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s plan to teach the Green Line in schools has provoked a bizarre storm of outrage on the Right. What makes this reaction bizarre is not that outrage is unwarranted; it is that the outrage has focused on the wrong issue.

The Right is up in arms over Tamir’s decision that textbook maps of Israel should include the Green Line. Yet on this point, Tamir is obviously correct. Schools are supposed to give children the basic knowledge they need to function as informed citizens, and in Israel that means knowing where the Green Line is. Without that knowledge, it is impossible to form an intelligent opinion on the No. 1 political issue of recent decades: whether Israel should withdraw to the Green Line or its vicinity. read more

Israelis Who Understand the “Palestinian Dream”, Disdain the Jewish Connection With Eretz Yisrael

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Jews Over the Line, By Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)

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Even more than she is sinning against historic truth in her desire to restore the Green Line to school maps, Education Minister Yuli Tamir is sinning by separating and distancing the community that lives “over the line” from the Israeli collective. Tamir is not only a former leader of Peace Now, one of those who charted the movement’s course; she is also a graduate of countless dialogues, “covenants of brothers” and similar activities, whose purpose was to preserve the weakening Jewish Israeli fabric. But by reinstating the Green Line on maps, Tamir is instituting a kind of ideological persecution against the more than a quarter of a million Jewish citizens who live in Judea and Samaria. read more