In light of the results of the PISA tests published last week, it can be cautiously stated that the policy led by former Education Minister Naftali Bennett, during his years as head of the education system - collapsed in the result test. It does not interfere with the ideological and political right to keep its eyes closed and spread conspiracy theories.

Here's how Hillel Gershuni's article ("The PISA's Curvy Test in Israel," December 12, 2010) did, instead of analyzing the failure, mocking a post I wrote that reviewed Bennett's three key ideologies and his contribution to the resounding failure. The right approach should be given to the minister to impose his ideology. Well Bennett did, and in large part. The result - a drastic drop in Israeli student scores, a widening of the gaps, so much so that, according to the report, the lower class in Israel receives third-world education.

Thus, we received an education system that deals with fantasies of building a temple instead of evolution, requiring study of national law instead of lessons in accepting others and tolerance, a state education system that is less budgeted than the religious one, and an economic view that invests only in the upper class, and dismisses an excuse that investment is already seeping down. It will not happen. This has never happened, and the PISA report is a wake-up call.

The economic right is dependent on the Israeli education system being public rather than private, but Bennett's and the right's capitalism is a worldview - not just an ownership structure. A concept that sanctifies competition and abandons the weak. This is why the PISA tests indicated huge gaps between outstanding and failed and between Jews and Arabs, and even pointed to a link between the achievement gap and economic status.

Gershuni's escape from arguments against a "nationalized" education system ignores one of Israel's interests in participating in international tests in the first place - "monitoring the degree of variation in achievement and measured skills, and standing on the relationship between educational attainment and socio-cultural-economic level in Israel" (report PISA 2018). The PISA tests were able to accurately identify the relationship between the level of achievement and status, with the conclusion found in the most important sentence in the report - "Distribution of grades in Israel is greatest among the participants and among the OECD countries."

Almost every issue in the report points to widening gaps and decreasing student achievement, and this gap is responsible for the Minister of Education and the Ministry of Education. In any normal country, a minister who brings such results would resign. Only in Israel does the Minister of Education fail to receive the keys to security, and his supporters on the right publish articles explaining that the problem She is "on the left" at all.

Tamar Zandberg is a Knesset Member for Meretz and Chairman of the Democratic Camp Group