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This is how Orientalism was forgotten - twice | Israel today

2020-08-03T21:55:18.013Z


| EducationFour years after it was published, it turns out that the program to study the contribution of Mizrahi women is not known and has not been studied at all • Ministry of Education: The content has been integrated into the core subjects The late Ronit Alkabetz Photo:  Coco - Archive Forgotten twice: Four years ago, following a report by the Bitton Committee, the Ministry of Education compiled a p...


Four years after it was published, it turns out that the program to study the contribution of Mizrahi women is not known and has not been studied at all • Ministry of Education: The content has been integrated into the core subjects

  • The late Ronit Alkabetz

    Photo: 

    Coco - Archive

Forgotten twice: Four years ago, following a report by the Bitton Committee, the Ministry of Education compiled a program on the contribution of about 30 inspiring Mizrahi women. : The program has not been taught at all and the students do not know it.

Reminder: In 2016, the ministry published a new curriculum, called “Light from the East,” designed to empower students through learning about groundbreaking women from Eastern and Spanish Jewry. The program was written as part of the implementation of the conclusions of the committee headed by Erez Bitton, which sought to integrate the story and contribution of the Jews of Spain and the East into the various subjects. Starring in the show: actress Hannah Azoulay-Hasfri, who was born to parents who immigrated from Morocco; Rebbetzin Adina Bar-Shalom, bride of the Israel Prize; The businesswoman, philanthropist and statesman of the Renaissance, Donna Gracia President; Hebrew pioneer Bracha Tzafira; MK Geula Cohen; Actress Ronit Alkabetz and more.

But plans aside and reality aside: an examination of "Israel Today" in about 30 local authorities reveals that the plan, which was supposed to be integrated into middle schools, was not studied at all in the big cities - nor in cities in the periphery, where there is a large concentration of Easterners.

The students were supposed to be exposed to the program, among other things, in preparation for the Bat Mitzvah ceremony, International Women's Day or on the occasion of roots work, but even the educators in the local authorities are not familiar with the program. The Tel Aviv municipality said that "the Ministry of Education has never updated the municipal education administration on the existence of the program, and therefore it was not taught in any of the 23 middle schools in the city. It is a pity, because on the face of it it sounds like a program very suitable for the municipal education system." .

The Jerusalem municipality also said that the program is not recognized by the Education Administration at all. The program has not been studied and has not been studied in the past in Rishon Lezion, Beer Sheva, Kfar Saba and Herzliya. The situation is similar in the periphery as well: negative answers came from Kiryat Shmona, Afula, Acre, the Galilee crane and Migdal Haemek in the north, Sderot, Ofakim and Netivot in the south, and Or Yehuda, Beit Shemesh and Bat Yam in the center.

"It is a great pity that the report was forgotten and not implemented in the education system," said poet Erez Bitton, who chaired the committee. "Education Minister Naftali Bennett had good intentions in raising the issue, but the bureaucrats torpedoed it. I guess all sorts of reasons have accumulated for the content not being studied and the promises not being fulfilled. One is that the implementation had to be done by the workforce that was already in the education system, which is largely responsible for the failures. The minister has also changed since then and the budget has not flowed. "

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The Ministry of Education stated: "The ministry attaches paramount importance to their historical story and the masterpieces that Eastern Jews have produced over the generations. In light of this, within the Bitton Committee the ministry has implemented a wide range of compulsory content. History, for example, incorporates the events of Wadi Salib, the Black Panthers and the impact of the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel on the situation of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa. Use ".

Source: israelhayom

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