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Lapid at a conference against Ma'oz: "Dangerous extremists are trying to take over the minds and hearts" | Israel today

2022-12-06T11:04:20.823Z


The granting of the powers to Chairman Noam caused an uproar in the political system • Shasha Biton decided to hold a conference under the title "Stopping the sale of the liquidation of the education system" • Gantz, Sa'ar and Lapid arrived at the conference • The outgoing Prime Minister:


After Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to grant MK Avi Maoz the powers over external programs in the Ministry of Education, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid and outgoing Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton held a conference which they call the "Emergency Conference".

Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Gideon Sa'ar, members of the Knesset and heads of authorities also came to the conference held in the Knesset at the initiative of Shasha Biton.

The conference was severely criticized by the members of the designated coalition - on the grounds that Shasha Beaton initiated such a conference, while in the position of Minister of Education.

Who will be the Minister of Education?

The outgoing Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, said at the beginning of his remarks: "I don't know who the next Minister of Education will be, but I know who he won't be. He won't be in charge of state religious education, because that was transferred to Smotrich; he won't be in charge of programs external educational institutions, because this was transferred to Avi Maoz and Rabbi Tao; he will not be responsible for the society for community centers because it was transferred to Deri;

He will not be responsible for Jewish culture, because that was passed on to Orit Strock;

He will not be responsible for ultra-Orthodox education, because that has been transferred to the ultra-Orthodox.

He won't even be responsible for the appointments in the teachers' council, because that too was transferred to Smotrich."

He also said: "The next Minister of Education of the State of Israel will not manage the education system. They tore it to pieces for the wrong reasons. Netanyahu is so weak, so dependent on them, that anyone who wanted something immediately got it. Nothing is sacred in their eyes. No Tza." L, not the rule of law, not the education of the children of Israel.

The education of our children does not interest them.

In all these strange and crazy negotiations, no one stood up, not a single person in this entire coalition, and said the simple sentence: I want to be the Minister of Education.

None of them said that this was their dream, to educate the children of Israel, to shape their future."

Lapid at the conference, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Lapid added: "When we formed the government, we all knew from day one that Sifat Shasha-Biton would be the minister of education. Because she is a doctor of education, because it is her life's dream. Because she knew what she wanted to do in the ministry. Because that is all she was interested in and that is why she was minister Excellent education.

Netanyahu and his people are not interested in this.

Because they know that the Ministry of Education is a lot of hard work, the result of which will only be seen in a few years, when our children and our grandchildren finish elementary and high school and university or college.

It is so uninteresting to them, that they have turned our children's education into another shameful moment of this government's crazy loot distribution.

Dismantling the Ministry of Education into governmental parts that they extort from Netanyahu in the coalition negotiations.

The only thing that is even more worrying than the ease with which they give is who wants to take: the most extreme and dangerous elements in Israeli society are going to be the most dominant elements in the education of our children."

Lapid said of his intended replacement: "Netanyahu knows this of course, but he is so weak because of his sentence, that he gave them everything without stopping for a moment to think about what it means for the future of the country.

Think about how an LGBT boy who has not yet come out of the closet feels towards the education system this week.

How does a Bedouin girl who insists on acquiring an education feel?

How does a secular parent feel who wants to send his child to school but has lost faith in the curriculum because you can't trust the one behind them."

"Rotation in an office that needs stability"

The outgoing Minister of Education, Dr. Shasha Beaton, said at the beginning of her remarks: "We are here today in an emergency conference on the never-ending liquidation sale.

I must say that we scheduled this conference, last week, when we thought that only one unit of this important system was going out.

Day by day we find that we are parting ways with another unit, and another unit, and simply selling the education system."

She also said: "For the past year and a half, we have been working within the system to address the education crisis that has been intensifying in recent years. We experienced it even more during the Corona period. We put back together the various parts of it that went to other ministries, we brought the day care center from the concept of an educational continuum from the age of birth and we did everything To get this system on track. On the


way to the formation of the new government, we find out that our education system is being dismantled and a liquidation sale is being held.

Shasha Biton at the conference, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

"But not only are they dismantling it, they are transferring parts of it, very essential parts, into the hands of extremist parties with dark views, and the ones who will pay the price, my friends, are everyone's children.

"The education programs that are at the core of the educational enrichment of the education system and the GPF system, the autonomy given to the educational institutions, were transferred to Abi Maoz.

An extreme man with dark views, we all know his positions.

These programs include programs in gender, sexual education and prevention of sexual violence, promotion of girls and gender equality, tolerance and acceptance of the other, coexistence, Judaism and more.

The Torah culture was transferred to Orit Strock, the control of state religious education was transferred to Smotrich, the community centers, according to the reports, want to be transferred to Shas, they talked about removing the dormitories and I hope that we were able to thwart this move following the struggle we had and the pressure we exerted and it will not happen, Because it is important after so many years of talking about transferring the dormitories to the Ministry of Education, that they stay there, because it is their natural place.

We are talking about rotation precisely in this important office that needs stability."

She said about Chairman Noam: "Maoz does not want to preserve Israeli state education as it is.

He does not know him at all, he is motivated by a radical ideology that wants to destroy state education from the inside.


The extreme golem stood up to its creator.

Prime Minister and Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir said that with Netanyahu there is nothing that is above his personal interest, including the Land of Israel.

And today we all know that there really is nothing with Netanyahu that is above his personal interest, including the education of two and a half million children."

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Source: israelhayom

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