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MKs Gafni and Maklev Meet With OECD Heads

By M. Green

During a meeting earlier this week with heads of the OECD, which Israel joined four months ago, Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni and Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Rabbi Uri Maklev presented chareidi Jewry's stance and told the representatives from the organization who wrote the report on Israel's economy about the way of life in the chareidi community, rejecting recent comparisons drawn in the media.

Rabbi Gafni, who opened the conversation, said it was important that international representatives involved in the Israeli economy and in economic and social policy hear firsthand about the chareidi public from its official representatives rather than accepting data from outsiders who are unfamiliar with the chareidi community. Rabbi Gafni said that although the report lumps the chareidi and the Arab sectors together, the chareidi sector is very different from any other.

Rabbi Gafni noted the many years the typical yeshiva student spends studying, sharpening his mind and thinking, which becomes apparent during the course of his adult life. Rabbi Gafni also noted the fact that chareidi girls who graduate from chareidi schools excel in all subject areas, reaching a higher level of academic achievement than their peers in the mainstream education system. This academic excellence is shown in tables and surveys released periodically by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

 

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