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Yishai Wants Technical Chareidi Yeshiva High Schools


yilaAt the behest of MK Eli Yishai, the latter met on Monday 27 Teves with Finance Minister Yair Lapid in the minister’s office. According to a Kikar Shabbos report, Yishai wished to speak with Lapid about launching technical yeshiva high schools that would incorporate limud Torah and teaching a trade. Officials on Yishai’s staff were quick to issue a denial, insisting the meeting had nothing to do with such a plan.

If Yishai does plan setting up a new alternative for chareidim who may be interested in such an option, the timing of such a move could not be worse. As the Ashkenazi chareidi MKs are boycotting Lapid, his Yesh Atid party and the coalition, seeking his assistance for such an arrangement is unlikely to be supported by Yahadut Hatorah. In addition, at a time when the Education Ministry is trying to compel chareidi mosdos to introduce secular subjects, any compromise is likely to be viewed as a betrayal, hence the denial from Yishai’s staff.

Earlier in the week it was announced that Shas agreed to Education Ministry demands to introduce secular studies in its Mayan Chinuch education system. This already elicited the ire of Yahadut Hatorah MKs that view the move at this particular time as breaking from the ranks as the chareidi tzibur in Israel is under attack.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)



6 Responses

  1. The timing couldn’t be better. Behind the turbulent headlines are masses of parents who’ve been deprived of occupational skills and who don’t wish to see their children similarly deprived. MK Yishai’s proposal if it’s for real, resembles some Jewish schools back in Morocco and, among the Ashkenazim, the Poalei Agudah approach. But hey, are these parents going to be called Chardakim too, and what is YW’s take on this?

  2. I believe they have such schools already, though officially under the Dati Leumi control, so there isn’t really a hiddush. Remember that Shas’s school serve a broad range of Israeli, whereas the schools affiliated with Agudah and Degel ha-Torah tend to serve only their own hareidi members (and the reason for this is that the ancestors of the Ashkenazi hareidi parties “lost” their baal ha-battim generations ago, whereas Shas has managed to keep many of its’ communities baal ha-battim from going totally off the derekh.

  3. This sounds like a really terrific option if it happens. This seems like a wonderful way to educate children in a Torah-dik environment, and also provide the with skills they will be able to use to earn a mechubadik living down the line. I guess it’s related in some ways to army service / sheirut le’umi, because if they haven’t done either of those, and are not eligible to legally work, then they may not be able to use these new skills. But in either case, this seems great — very exciting.

  4. How about skipping over the battle attack and work on solving problems?
    There is a large segment of bochurim who do not continue full-time learning after mesifta. Start thinking ‘out of the box’ and helping these boys progress in the world of Torah observance. A complete mind shift will be needed of acceptance, validation and welcome instead of eliciting the IRE OF CHAREDI PARTIES.

  5. Zionist shmad continues.

    In theory, it’s a nice idea.
    In practice, what it means is that Zionism, which is shmad, gets to further infiltrate their chinuch.

    But regardless of having or not having secular studies, the core problem is Israel’s refusal to allow its citizens to get jobs without having served in its mandatory den of shmad and immorality known as the IDF. This, too, is immoral.

    Let Israel allow everyone to work, regardless of IDF service, and then see if the Chareidim still need their forced “help” (shmad). In the United States, there are plenty of examples of chassidim who attend their own schools who then go on to the business world.

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