In Israel, Subsidies Not to Learn

By JON BASIL UTLEY

At the recent J Street meeting (J Street is the new anti-AIPAC Jewish organization) I heard two speakers, one was a Knesset member, decrying the fact that 27% of Israeli children now go to schools, Yeshivas, without math, history, science or foreign languages. Now I find an LA Times report from 2008stating that the government had caved in to demands that such schools get state subsidies as well.

I would note that such “schools” are in the same tradition as the Muslim madrassas so often criticized in the Western media. But about Israel most of our media is silent.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2010/07/03/in-israel-subsidies-not-to-learn/