Avigdor Lieberman turns out to be an efficient finance minister, who is not afraid of the public brawl, and sometimes a smiling suspicion creeps into his heart because he finds it a measure of pleasure.
The Ministry of Finance presented the teachers with a substantive proposal to determine their salary, and although there is room for improvement, it deserves to avoid a strike in the education system, which for years does not promote opinion buying.
I watched Channel 12 this week and envied the rabbi in the ultra-orthodox education, who could say simply: "We don't have strikes."
Although it is appropriate to deny the hostile attitude of the ultra-Orthodox system to the core studies, it is the Jewish rule that prohibits the abrogation of the Torah that sustains the Jewish people.
"Jerusalem was not destroyed," as the sages say, "but because the babies of the Beit Raban were killed in it."
The TV reminded me for the umpteenth time of my legendary teacher Rachel Alper, about whom I have often told.
She was a definite feminist, but something called a teachers' strike forced us to study. We scolded her because our friends in the other classes were playing in the yard, but Alfer slammed the door by announcing that "there is no teachers' strike in the Jewish state", since our existence depends on the trial of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (the hated in her view) that the fate of the revolution depends on "learning, learning, learning."
Therefore, in my eyes, Lieberman's main test is not in the answer to the question of how many shekels he will add to the teacher's income, unless his claim is actually determined that the tip of the spear in his salary will be determined according to his merit.
If this will be the result of the ugly struggle going on these weeks - we will be judged.
The outstanding teachers are those whose students will often choose math classes at the level of five units, and three and four are also perfectly fine, provided that those who choose them strive to achieve maximum achievements.
The way to close gaps and equal opportunities is not only in mentioning the sectarian and sectoral injustice in the past, but in breaking information forward.
Prof. Haim Harari from the Weizmann Institute opened institutes for advanced scientific education;
Naftali Bennett encouraged as the Minister of Education the introduction of mathematics to the development cities, and with success;
And now Lieberman will raise the level of education by giving him a part of the teacher's honors salary.
Who is it about?
A teacher who, along with advanced mathematical-scientific studies, will make sure that young men and women do not graduate from high school without knowing some of the cultural classics by heart.
Without quoting by heart the lamentation of David and the morals of the prophets against corruption ("disobedient sons") and in favor of the pursuit of peace ("and a wolf dwells with a lamb");
He will wander with them in the amazing engineering factory in Nekvet Shiloh, and there will be "A beautiful landscape of six worlds" by Yehuda Halevi, "Heard like pearls the dew on Mount Hermon" by Chaim Nachman Bialik, and "We are the silver platter on which the Jewish state was given to you" by Nathan Alterman.
For this they will receive a reward of excellence, and the nation will be rewarded with a generation that identifies with his legacy and strives for the summit of science, struggling with the dimming of its unique national symbols and the disruption of the painful truth as if the descent from the country is merely relocation.
They tell me it's romantic innocence.
True, you can't turn the wheel back, but you can roll it forward and it will reach its destination again.
When the IDF recruits female fighters for tedious service, it builds the ethos. That of the teacher can also be restored. Offering the merit pay is the right way.
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