Education Ministry Establishes Guidelines Guaranteeing Students' Rights to Lay Tefillin in Schools
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Education Ministry establishes guidelines guaranteeing students' rights to lay tefillin in schools
The directive aimed to establish clear, uniform rules and provide school principals with a guided framework to facilitate the policy's implementation throughout the public school system.
Israel Orders State Schools to Permit Students to Lay Tefillin During Breaks
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Education Ministry has issued nationwide guidelines requiring all state schools to allow students who wish to lay tefillin during the school day, establishing a uniform policy after years of differing practices among individual schools. The directive, published Monday in a new director-general’s circular, requires school principals to adopt formal policies allowing […]
A new circular from the Director General regulates the issue for the first time and states that principals will be required to allow students who wish to do so to wear tefillin on the grounds of the educational institution. Minister Kish emphasized that this is a "fundamental right, a basic tradition, and national pride." The Tel Aviv Municipality attacked: "The minister is busy with division and coercion, this is deep hypocrisy."
The Ministry of Education publishes today (Monday) for the first time a chief executive return that regulates the laying of thafilin in state schools and establishes a uniform nationwide policy on the issue. The returns were formulated after professional staff work, following numerous inquiries received in the office and cases that emerged from the schools, which illustrated that the lack of systemic series created uncertainty, different interpr…
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