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NEWS
Rabbi Gafni: Secular Youth Growing Up Without Values
By Eliezer Rauchberger
"The Israeli child grows up today without any values because
the secular education system has gone bankrupt," said MK
Rabbi Moshe Gafni in a meeting of the Knesset Education
Committee on the topic of values and education. "Secular
youth used to have values like land and the importance of the
State, but today it has nothing."
He said genuine values are Jewish values and education should
be founded solely on them. The general education system
collapsed not because of a lack of funding but because of a
lack of Jewish values, he added. On the other hand the
chareidi education system, whose funding has diminished
dramatically, continues to flourish due to its values and is
constantly lavished with praise for its achievements.
The Education Ministry's Prof. Yaakov Katz recounted that
when he studied in a non-religious Jewish school abroad he
was shown consideration and efforts were made to accommodate
his religious lifestyle in terms of Shabbos, kashrus, etc.,
whereas here in Israel he would never be accorded such
treatment.
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