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Panel slams inclusion of pre-1967 borders in school maps
By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent

The Knesset Education and Culture Committee decided on Monday to summon Education Minister Yuli Tamir to answer questions about her decision to include Israel's pre-1967 border in textbook maps.

During the session, Kadima party and right-wing MKs lashed out at Tamir for her decision made two weeks ago to include the so-called Green Line border which excludes the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights from Israel.

National Religious Party Chairman MK Zevulun Orlev presented the committee with the 1967 Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee decision to remove the Green line -as well as the pre-1948 British Mandate border- from all but historical maps.
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"Tamir's decision is blatantly political," Orlev said. "It has no educational, instructive or scientific basis. As far back as 1967 the government decided that the Green Line had ceased to exist."

MKs Orlev and Ze'ev Alkin (Kadima) drafted a statement calling on the education minister to freeze her decision until a further discussion on the subject be held, but the committee chairman MK Michael Melchior (Labor-Meimad) decided to allow Tamir to respond before a vote was held on the announcement.

"It is not fair or proper to make a political decision without hearing from the minister who is accused of just such a decision," Melchior said.

Senior education ministry official, Professor Anat Zohar, said during the discussion that the green line has current relevance.

"When one is talking about the 'right of return' you need to know where the green line passes," Zohar said. "Students must be familiar with the term and must be put in the study guidelines when the subject committees deem it should."

The official in the education ministry's geography department, Dalia Fenig, said the subject's committee decided to "raise different issues ?like the Green Line, the Land of Israel or the settlement blocs- so that students can make informed decisions."

After the session MK Elkin said "I thought I'd get better explinations about the deicison but after hearing the education ministry representatives I left the session even more confused. It's a shame the education minister, who appeared in all the possible media channels to explain her intentions, did not find it appropriate to show at the committee and defend her decision."
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  1.   No borders = same map -One is called Israel; the other Palestine 21:43  |  SD 18/12/06
  2.   So, which Israel Israel want Hamas to recognize? 22:00  |  John 18/12/06
  3.   To #1 ... Borders... 22:03  |  Sam 18/12/06
  4.   Israels internationaly reckpgnized borders 22:24  |  n_erber 18/12/06
  5.   Sam 22:25  |  #1 18/12/06
  6.   Borders Sam 22:31  |  Angillilio 18/12/06
  7.   Teaching denial? 22:39  |  Eli 18/12/06
  8.   Too soon 22:39  |  GregD 18/12/06
  9.   few honest people left in Israel 23:02  |  gus 18/12/06
  10.   re Eli 23:05  |  Axel 18/12/06
  11.   School maps 23:32  |  Joe Perlov 18/12/06
  12.   why not glorify historical expansion of Israel? 23:33  |  Pssd Off American 18/12/06
  13.   The Green Line and Hypocrisy 23:36  |  Leon Blaustein 18/12/06
  14.   When I went to school 23:43  |  Axel 18/12/06
  15.   Do we have to go all through this Again? 23:44  |  Avi Yerushalmi 18/12/06
  16.   Panel slams inclusion of pre-1967 borders in school maps 23:46  |  n_erber 18/12/06
  17.   Map, which one? 00:01  |  Larry 19/12/06
  18.   #4 complete nonsense THE ONLY BORDERS ARE BETWEEN SOVEREIGN STAT 00:13  |  paul harris 19/12/06
  19.   #10 AXEL THE HONEST MAN BELIEVES THAT 00:15  |  paul harris 19/12/06
  20.   Angillilio 00:16  |  Sam 19/12/06
  21.   they might as well use the Hamas textbooks 00:29  |  r 19/12/06
  22.   Green Line 00:32  |  Esther 19/12/06
  23.   I agree with Yuli Tamir 00:36  |  Roland 19/12/06
  24.   The Green Line exists 00:54  |  Adam Keller 19/12/06
  25.   OK, scrap the Green Line and give Pals the vote in Israel 01:25  |  Michael 19/12/06
  26.   Paul Harris 18 supports giving Pals the vote in Israel 01:34  |  Michael 19/12/06
  27.   West Bank Not Annexed!!!! 01:41  |  dan 19/12/06
  28.   Typos -explination -- last paragraph 01:47  |  will 19/12/06
  29.   re 21 - Hamas textbooks 01:48  |  Eli 19/12/06
  30.   My Globe was made in 1946 02:33  |  Efox 19/12/06
  31.   #18 Paul Harris talking about borders 03:02  |  Johnboy 19/12/06
  32.   U can`t have your cake and eat it too 03:05  |  hsing lee 19/12/06
  33.   #19 Paul Harris makes a dishonest statement 03:10  |  Johnboy 19/12/06
  34.   #29 Eli asks for a demographc map 03:13  |  Johnboy 19/12/06
  35.   johnboy thinks it`s a game of Risk 04:59  |  peter 19/12/06
  36.   Where is Palestine in Israeli maps? 06:10  |  Petteri 19/12/06
  37.   #35 No, peter, you are the one who thinks it is a game 07:17  |  Johnboy 19/12/06
  38.   Pali extermination 07:44  |  Levi 16/11/08
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