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Israel operates an Arab education system for the Israeli-Arab minority, teaching Arab students, in Arabic, about their history and culture. Israel is a signatory of the Convention against Discrimination in Education, and ratified it in 1961. The convention has the status of law in Israeli courts. [58]
However, these were probably not schools in the traditional sense but rather an apprenticeship system located in the family. [1] The total literacy rate of Jews in Israel in the first centuries c.e. was "probably less than 3%". While this may seem very low by today's standards, it was relatively high in the ancient world.
Timeline of Israel history List of years in Israel This is a timeline of modern Israeli history , comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Israel and its predecessor entities from 1882 onward, along with important events in Jewish history and the history of Zionism from that year on.
In 1949 education was made free and compulsory for all citizens until the age of 14. The state now funded the party-affiliated Zionist education system and a new body created by the Haredi Agudat Israel party. A separate body was created to provide education for the remaining Palestinian-Arab population.
The Streams Method in Israeli education refers to the ideological and party-based division of education in Israel. [1] This method was practiced in the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel and later among the Jewish public in the State of Israel from the 1920s until the enactment of the State Education Law on August 12, 1953. [ 2 ]
Israel’s military advance on the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and Egyptian Sinai in 1967 sparked fresh bloodshed and saw the UN Security Council pass Resolution 242 ordering it to ...
Jewish education has been valued since the birth of Judaism.In the Hebrew Bible Abraham is lauded for instructing his offspring in God's ways. [3] One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to provide for the instruction of their children as set forth in the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael prayer: “Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.
The Independent Education System of Israel (Hebrew: החינוך העצמאי - which is translated "independent education", and could be transliterated as Khinukh Atsmai or Chinuch Atzmai) is an alternate school system run by, and serving the needs of, the Haredi Jewish (ultra-Orthodox Jewish) community of Israel.