The Ministry of Education stands behind the document that regulates the treatment of students from the gay community after it was dragged to court and required to freeze its implementation.
The Ministry of Education responded to the court this evening (Wednesday) against the claim that the implementation of a document that deals with the way LGBT students should behave in the education system should be frozen. In its response, it claims that even though the document was published at the end of the term of the previous Minister of Education Yifat Shasha Biton, there was no obstacle to publishing It is also claimed that the publication of the guidelines document was preceded by a long and comprehensive professional process, which took several years, and came to an end on the date of publication of the document.
He was pressured to retract the document.
Minister of Education Yoav Kish, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
However, it should be noted that various parties recently tried to put pressure on the Minister of Education Yoav Kish to withdraw from the document.
The answer submitted by the Ministry of Education to the court states that "The Minister of Education, who has been in office for a long time, intends to review the matters from time to time, and as it turns out that updates are required, these will be carried out as necessary."
It should be noted that on previous occasions Minister of Education Kish claimed that his view was "liberal" and that LGBT students would not be harmed.
Arrangement of response to LGBT students, photo: GettyImages
The petition against the Ministry of Education was submitted by the Lavi organization for civil rights and settlement encouragement.
In the petition, he demands that the document concerning the way in which LGBT students should be treated and published at the end of the term of office of the previous minister Shasha Beaton not be implemented in practice. For an enabling and non-judgmental educational discourse that mentions a variety of family formations.
It is important to use sensitive language in school documents and in conversations with children, teenagers and parents.
Among other things, the Lavi organization claimed that the publication of the guidelines is contrary to any policy of restraint and restraint of the transitional government, but the Ministry of Education claims that the examination of the necessary balance between the need to act and maintain the continuity of governmental activity, and the requirement of restraint and restraint imposed on the transitional government, shows that there is no reason for the intervention of The honorable court in the decision on the publication of the guidelines document, and that there was no obstacle to its publication at the time it was published.
It is further claimed that it was published by a professional body - the Pedagogical Administration and the Shafi Division of the Ministry of Education, and in accordance with the discretion of the professional bodies in the Ministry.
The document was published at the end of the tenure of the previous minister Shasha Biton, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Mor Nahari, CEO of Hoshan, said: "We welcome the position of the Ministry of Education, which expressed a clear position in court in favor of the guidelines for working with LGBT youth.
The guidelines document is a professional and important document like no other, and we call on the Ministry of Education to make sure that the document is distributed and enforced in all schools in Israel.
The guidelines are another step to make schools safe spaces for gay youth and we will not stop and continue our work in Hoshan until every student is safe and protected within the school walls.
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