Shai Piron

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Soldiers in an IDF honor guard hold their weapons during the funeral for a soldier killed in Gaza, July 20, 2014, Holon, Israel. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Kitsch, death and god at Israel’s Education Ministry
The Israeli education minister’s letter to the graduating class of 2014 is evidence of the fact that Israeli education is little more than an ongoing IDF preparatory course. By Avner Ben-Amos (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Erez) A letter to the high school class of 2014 published by Israeli Education Minister Shai Piron in the…
By Haokets September 15, 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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