Jan. 17, 2021
Education Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that he has ordered his ministry’s director general to bar schools from hosting organizations “that treat IDF soldiers contemptuously and call Israel an apartheid state.”
He was responding to complaints from Likud Knesset members over the fact that Hagai El-Ad, the director of the human rights group B’Tselem, is slated to address students at a Haifa high school on Monday in a Zoom lecture.
El-Ad was originally scheduled to deliver the lecture at Haifa’s Hebrew Reali School last month, but it was cancelled following pressure from right-wing groups. He learned about the cancelation only from reading about it in Haaretz.
Teens Learn to Be Leaders on Israel
Teens Learn to Be Leaders on Israel
Eight high schoolers from metro Atlanta participated in a virtual workshop aimed at helping them become leaders in Israel education and advocacy. January 14, 2021, 3:04 pm Edit 0 shares
Eight high schoolers from metro Atlanta participated in the Center for Israel Education’s annual fall Teen Israel Leadership Institute, which was held virtually for the first time because of COVID-19.
As happened with CIE’s annual Educator Enrichment Workshop on Modern Israel during the summer, the move to an online event instead of a physical gathering in Atlanta enabled the center to engage more learners than ever.
A police volunteer 'felt his life was in danger' after stones were thrown toward his vehicle when he attempted to enforce the restrictions, which prohibit opening schools
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Two local teens discuss their time with the Teen Israel Leadership Institute (TILI) virtual program.
Fall is the time for the annual Teen Israel Leadership Institute (TILI) in Atlanta, but COVID-19 once again made business as usual impossible. The Center for Israel Education made the most of the required change to online teaching and succeeded in engaging more learners than ever, drawing teens from wide geographic localities, including Metro Detroit.
Caleb Kleinfeldt of Huntington Woods, a junior at Frankel Jewish Academy, was one of the teens who participated. “I’ve been Zionistic my whole life and found this was a way to understand Israel on a very professional level,” said Kleinfeldt, who attends Kehillat Etz Chayim, an Open Orthodox synagogue in Oak Park and Huntington Woods. “I enjoyed the program and hearing the speakers.”
Jan. 11, 2021
Eleven people were detained in the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod on Monday afternoon, after hundreds of ultra-Orthodox clashed with police officers attempting to close a religious school that was operating in violation of lockdown regulations.
Police said three officers and two municipal inspectors had been injured in the riots. Reinforcements were sent to the Meir Eini Yisrael school, which is associated with the radical ultra-Orthodox group Jerusalem Faction. Some protesters blocked a road at the scene, others boarded a police car while driving and were nearly ran over. Rioters also threw stones, sand and other objects at police officers.