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Tamir infuriates rightists by removing Jabotinsky from curriculum
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Yuli Tamir 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for August 10, 2008.

Education Minister Yuli Tamir has once again found herself under fire for a decision regarding the national education curriculum.

Tamir has decided to strike Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a right-wing Revisionist Zionist leader, from a list of terms students are required to learn.


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nd once again, the reaction to her decision exposes the deep left-right divide regarding the Israeli narrative.


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      1.   Tamir is a bolshevik 03:33  |  Frank 11/08/08
      2.   teach pal poetry but ban jabotinsky whose crazy idea is that? 04:39  |  ralph 11/08/08
      3.   get rid of this minister of so called education. 04:40  |  ralph 11/08/08
      4.   REMOVE ALSO HERZL, BG, GOLDA, PERES, RABIN, BEGIN, SHARON, OLMERT 04:47  |  VOICE 11/08/08
      5.   REMOVE leftist Rabin and Livni FROM THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM 05:45  |  HENRY MANN 11/08/08
      6.   The War and the Jew 05:50  |  Paul 11/08/08
      7.   Anyone who sees this as a left-right issue... 07:12  |  JonathanInTelAviv 11/08/08
      8.   About removing Jabotinsky from curriculum 08:32  |  silene balassiano 11/08/08
      9.   don`t just remove Jabotinski 08:43  |  davidk 11/08/08
      10.   Jabotinsky 10:16  |  Simcha Krauss 11/08/08
      11.   Certainly is a leftist issue 10:21  |  Binyamin Dissen 11/08/08
      12.   If you, Frank #1, had any idea of Jabotinsky`s ideas,... 11:09  |  zmogus 11/08/08
      13.   Jabotinsky 12:03  |  Renny 11/08/08
      14.   Jabotinsky was a true prophet 14:32  |  Rob 11/08/08
      15.   one less tool for brain washing young minds 14:36  |  SJ 11/08/08
      16.   Jabotinsky a prophet? 14:55  |  Ralph is back 11/08/08
      17.   Rabin`s groupie Tamir still looks for a Father figure 15:20  |  Absolute Sweden 11/08/08
      18.   Tamir removes Jabotinsky, includes Nakba 15:30  |  Ben 11/08/08
      19.   History is History: you can`t change it 15:58  |  Claudio 11/08/08
      20.   History is History: you can`t change it 15:58  |  Claudio 11/08/08
      21.   continuation 16:07  |  Claudio 11/08/08
      22.   changing history for liberal politics 16:07  |  Paul Morganstein 11/08/08
      23.   What leftists can admit. 16:14  |  Paul 11/08/08
      24.   jabotinsky 16:24  |  rut 11/08/08
      25.   Deja vu - all over again - where was it? 16:28  |  17 11/08/08
      26.   shame 16:34  |  Baruch 11/08/08
      27.   If tamir had her way, hamas would be writing all the school books 16:39  |  Arie 11/08/08
      28.   The one who controls the past 16:45  |  Boris 11/08/08
      29.   SJ, Are they going to erase Old Yishuv from the books, too? 16:47  |  Zev Davis 11/08/08
      30.   SJ, Are they going to erase Old Yishuv from the books, too? 16:47  |  Zev Davis 11/08/08
      31.   Zmogus (Post No. 12) 16:50  |  Johnny Weintraub 11/08/08
      32.   Jewish self-haters are the allies of Arabs. 16:54  |  Jean Van Daem 11/08/08
      33.   Jabotinsky & Jewish History 16:59  |  Sy Dill- 11/08/08
      34.   Let`s home this is Tamir`s last month - she failed - big time! 17:01  |  redmike 11/08/08
      35.   Zmogus - omitting "bad ppeople" from history from books. 18:12  |  17 11/08/08
      36.   #31, Johnny Weintraub 18:15  |  zmogus 11/08/08
      37.   They should know who their streets are named after? 18:32  |  Polybios 11/08/08
      38.   you lie not yuli 18:38  |  vladimir not tamir 11/08/08
      39.   secular system breeds delinquents 18:40  |  real i. gious 11/08/08
      40.   Teach everything ! 19:41  |  David 11/08/08
      41.   jabotinsky 19:47  |  gustave gavis md 11/08/08
      42.   32 20:26  |  nuchem 11/08/08
      43.   Jabotinsky 20:33  |  jeff r 11/08/08
      44.   Jabotinsky Lockout: Eliminate Andrew jackson 21:17  |  dov epstein 11/08/08
      45.   Ya! Why doesn`t Tamir remove Hitler from WWII 06:21  |  The Archives 12/08/08
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