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Embattled teacher compared to Dreyfus
The controversy surrounding an unsuspecting high-school teacher who was denounced by one of his twelfth-grade students for allegedly expressing left-wing views in class escalated rapidly this week. Adam Verete, the teacher from Kiryat Tivon, has unwittingly been dubbed ‘Dreyfus of Tivon’; a routine meeting of the Knesset Education Committee became a heated argument over the…
By Dahlia Scheindlin January 23, 2014
Education Minister Shai Piron (Source: Yesh Atid/Wikimedia Commons) December 2, 2012
Student’s ‘political persecution’ of teacher reaches national stage
An Israeli student’s accusations that her teacher expressed leftist views, amplified by a far-right political figure, now have the teacher fighting for his job. Israel’s education minister ordered the Ort school system to investigate a complaint against a high school teacher from one of its schools in the north of Israel, following a letter from…
By Dahlia Scheindlin January 20, 2014
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