The Education Minister boasted at the onset of the school year of the innovations which will be introduced into the curriculum subject "Israeli-Jewish Culture," though not one of his voters in the Religious Zionist party investigated what this actually entailed. According to the new program, the instructors who will guide teachers of Jewish thought in schools throughout the country will be graduates of the Hartman Institute, against which the Religious Zionists waged an all-out battle to eject them from Zahal for their identification with the Israeli Leftists and the members of the New Israel Foundation. Director of the Hartman Institute's training program: "As soon as the student leaves the school halls, one or another type of rabbi awaits him. Since we are not geared to deal with this subject, the student is exposed to various agents far stronger."
This is the only discrimination in the educational system of 2019: the threatening domination of bodies and people in the pluralistic spirit which inject themselves into the secular educational stream and purposely repulse all Orthodox activities.
The circled bullet point says that one requirement is familiarity with the Israeli school system and identifying with pluralistic Judaism
The advertisement of the Ministry of Education list the requirements for applicants. One of them is to identify with "Pluralistic Judaism," a euphemism for the Reform movement.
Even though in Israel the overwhelming majority identify with one of the Orthodox groups, they are not allowed in the program of Judaism of the Israeli Ministry of Education.
The one and a half million students who have begun the school year this week, will be compelled to be exposed and make their acquaintance with the subject of "Judaism" in the spirit of the movement which Kriv represents. The Education Ministry suggests budgeted activities in the schools from a list he has created: school principals who will refuse any of the activities offered by the Reform movement or other pluralistic bodies like Binah, Elul, Hamidrasha B'Eitanim etc., will have no choice but to agree to activities promoted by Keren Tali which is officially identified with the Conservative movement. Those principals of the secular stream who will seek to offer their students more traditional educational program will be thwarted. Even though in Israel, the majority of the population identifies itself with Orthodox or traditional Judaism, they will not be able to participate in such activities, according to the Ministry of Education but will be forced to attend activities of very specified parameters. At least this is what is stated from a public announcement issued by the government for school year 5780. This announcement reveals that there will be very little choice, and only the dangerous wares of the above bodies will be offered in the schools under the auspices of the Ministry.
Gilad Kriv is the CEO of Reform Judaism in Israel. In the course of several election campaigns, he has tried his luck in gaining a seat in the Knesset, and failed. In the past, it was via the Labor Party while in this present election, he is trying his luck through the Democratic Camp. Despite all of his past failures, he never really believed that the movement he represented had enough votes to garner a single seat for himself by standing alone. But despite the sub-representation of himself and his colleagues, he has gained a rejuvenation through the patronage of the Education Ministry.
