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Former Top Educator Breaks Silence on the Religious Right’s Years-long Battle to Take Over Israeli Civics Classes

Yael Guron, Israel’s ex-coordinator-inspector of civics studies in the state education system, breaks her public silence on how right-wing figures sought to interfere with the Education Ministry

“There is no academic opinion supporting the book,” the former chief inspector of civics in the Education Ministry warned her superiors in 2016, months before the approval of a textbook currently used as the basis for teaching the subject and for the matriculation exam in it… Read More