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The school asked the ministry for the legal basis on which its decision had been based, and when it got no reply, it went ahead with the lecture.
In a letter to the principal, Mendi Rabinowitz, ministry director-general Amit Edri wrote on Wednesday that he had conducted himself in a manner “inconsistent with legal provisions and the norms expected of any instructor, and especially a principal.”
Edri argued that discussing controversial issues with students was permissible, but that “the full spectrum of views regarding each topic” should be presented. Notably, however, the right-wing columnist Nave Dromi spoke at the same virtual event.
Jan. 18, 2021
Some 300 12th graders at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa participated in a Zoom lecture Monday morning with the director of the human rights group B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, which was held despite an order from the Education Ministry to cancel it.
On Sunday Education Minister Yoav Gallant instructed the ministry director-general to bar schools from hosting representatives of organizations “that treat IDF soldiers with contempt and call Israel an apartheid state,” and ministry officials conveyed the order to the Reali School. The school asked the ministry for the legal basis on which its decision had been based, and when it got no reply, it went ahead with the lecture. The education minister’s bureau said it was considering how to respond.
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Jan. 18, 2021
The cries at the funeral Sunday in Elad filled the air as Shmuel Yodlovich eulogized his wife, Tzipi, a 40-year-old woman with no underlying conditions who died over Shabbat after contracting the coronavirus. “When we were singing ‘A Woman of Valor’ [on Friday night] the angels were leading you to heaven,” he is heard saying on a recording of the eulogy that was circulated.
Similar eulogies have been heard over the past several weeks at cemeteries in many ultra-Orthodox communities. The rate of infection in the Haredi community during the current wave of the pandemic is breaking records. The bulletin boards in Haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem are seeing death notices pasted over each other daily and the mourning pages on Haredi websites are being updated at a dizzying pace. Many members of the community are hospitalized in serious condition.
Education Minister Yoav Gallant’s failed attempt to bar B’Tselem’s executive director, Hagai El-Ad, from addressing students at a Haifa high school is further proof that