I received a lot of responses to my claim in a previous article published here, that the depletion and subsequent privatization of education in the spiritual professions are the source of the culture war that is raging upon us around the establishment of the new government.
But the question is not reduced to a possible intervention, practical or not, by Avi Maoz in education.
The serious depletion of teaching hours, and therefore the quality of teaching, of history, literature, the Bible, and the Hebrew Bible, in favor of propaganda substitutes of any private associations - causes much deeper damages.
They touch our infrastructure, the collective common denominator that connects us. To understand the damage, we need to step back and focus on the sources of our success in the huge project of forming a common consciousness for a scattered people, whose groups lived apart from each other for hundreds of years.
The revival of the Hebrew culture of the Jews was a joint enterprise of Zionists of all kinds: traditional, non-religious, secular or religious.
Those who are not imbued with unnecessary enmity can also notice the gradual, but increasingly distinct, joining of many ultra-Orthodox to our collective consciousness.
The building of the new Hebrew culture of the Jews in Israel is a major success that has no equal - historians have no parallel case to compare it to.
Zionist education, in the spirit of figures like Ahad Ha'am and Rabbi Kook, led and established the construction process.
It was not a carpet unification project.
He was riddled with disputes, as is the best of the Jewish tradition.
From the beginning, accusations of secularism or religiosity, and other denunciations have been hurled at him, and will be hurled at him in the future as well.
There have always been and will be various tensions around him.
But our Zionist education succeeded in becoming a sophisticated, rich and diverse laboratory for the formation of a common collective consciousness, not necessarily a uniform one.
He managed to be a common reactor from which disputes emerge and become clear within him.
National identity is not a manifesto or dictated tenets of faith, but is a common bed of meaning that defines the issues that the different parties disagree on.
The ability to lay this platform is the key to the cultural success of Zionism.
This nature of the cultural revival, which was based on a joint effort by the whole of society and not on decentralized privatization, is one of the important secrets to the revival's success and persistence.
And it is he who is currently under threat due to the division of the education system into factions, who want pieces of it for themselves.
The ultra-orthodox education is suffering badly from Jesus Christ.
This is one of the sources of his failures.
To a lesser extent, but still significantly, religious-national education also suffers from crucifixion.
But many ministers of education - religious ones like Hamer, Levy, Firon and Bennett, alongside secular ones like Livnat, Tamir, Sa'ar and Shasha Biton - led privatization processes in general state education as well.
Distinctive identity subjects such as Jewish history, Hebrew literature, the Bible, and the Hebrew Bible were brutally cut, and then private associations with their own agendas for one-sided consciousness engineering were introduced into the void. The Jewish common identity has always been based on deep and broad stories ("narratives"). Scope, which led from a common source to a vision for the future.
Without such a point of view - there is no point in studying the Bible.
Studying a fragmented Bible must lead to alienation. This is exactly the situation in studying the history of the people of Israel. A random and casual sampling of it will not interest anyone. The bulk of our modern identity discussion took place in Hebrew literature. Without it, how will we know who we were and who we want to be? Without a substantial education in a resident We are guaranteed a rapid degeneration into a sort of superficial, brittle and selfless culture. The Ministry of Education cannot continue with the deadly tolerance it has fallen into in the spiritual realms.
Exacerbating privatization will be a sure recipe for its de facto dismantling, and a retreat from the great achievement of building Hebrew culture.
Privatization is the main source of problems in our education.
It is essential for us to strengthen the Ministry of Education and turn back the wheel of privatization.
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