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Chareidi Education: A Majority in Beit Shemesh
by Betzalel Kahn

Chareidi education in Beit Shemesh has now become a majority of the city's educational system. Of the 18,520 talmidim enrolled in all of the educational institutions, about 54 percent are studying in chareidi institutions. The rapid increase in the number of chareidi students has made them the majority within just a few years.

Some 10,000 children studying in 400 nursery school, talmud Torah and school classrooms began the 5764 school year last week. This impressive achievement can be attributed this year to the chareidi representatives on the city council. Dozens of portable classrooms were set up throughout the Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef neighborhood with Education Ministry funding to provide a partial, interim solution for the severe lack of space in educational institutions. In addition, several new structures were opened for use while others are still under construction.

The day after the school year opened, MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni arrived for a tour of several educational facilities in the city. Rabbi Gafni was accompanied by Rabbi Avrohom Rubinstein, a city council member representing Degel HaTorah; Rabbi Eliezer Greenbaum, director of Degel HaTorah's Public Information Bureau who is the subject of an article in this week's paper; Rabbi Moshe Montag, director of the Department of Chareidi Education; Rabbi Chaim Friedman, director of the Chareidi Section; Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg, principal of Talmud Torah Toras HaBayis; Rabbi Tzvi Ravinsky and others.

 

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