In Hebrew, as in other languages, there is a widespread use of “acronyms”.<\/p>\n
One of the most common acronyms in the news in Israel these days is hidden in the term ‘LIBA studies’. LIBA is the Hebrew acronym for something like “Basic Studies in State Education”. As it happens, “LIBA” in Hebrew also means “core”.<\/p>\n
Translated from Hebrew Wikipedia: The “core” program is a curriculum formulated by the Ministry of Education, which is supposed to be the common denominator of learning that is mandatory for all students in the Israeli education system. The program specifies a few core subjects and the extent of their weekly study for elementary and middle school students in Israel. The four core subjects are mathematics, mother tongue (Hebrew or Arabic), English, and science.<\/p>\n
— * — * —<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n Indeed, in a sane society, people struggle to educate their children, to receive budgets for study and education. Not so in the “ultra-Orthodox” (“Haredi”) sector of the State of Israel. The struggle there is (hard to believe) over non-education<\/b>. The Haredi people simply teach their children (especially the boys) religious studies only. To receive the budgets allocated according to the criteria for core studies, they have even been caught more than once deceiving the authorities and declaring that they are teaching such studies without actually teaching them.<\/p>\n What prevents them from educating their sons? A combination of things: the claim that their faith requires them to focus on religious studies only, and especially the fear (quite literally) of giving access to new and modern knowledge, which is often in conflict with the tenets of their faith. And of course, it is easy to control a large and ignorant population, since it is not easy for them to get along in the world out there.<\/p>\n And why does this continue to happen in a modern country like Israel? For political reasons. The government needs the Haredi parties in their coalition, which makes it support their system of non-education, which makes it grow ever bigger, which makes the government need them even more. If they were properly educated, they would know that this is called “positive feedback”. Yet there is nothing positive about this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Hebrew, as in other languages, there is a widespread use of “acronyms”. One of the most common acronyms in the news in Israel these days is hidden in the term ‘LIBA studies’. LIBA is the Hebrew acronym for something like “Basic Studies in State Education”. As it happens, “LIBA” in Hebrew also means “core”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50,51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-and-state","category-education","category-money","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}