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Education Minister Yuli Tamir speaking at a conference on education in Holon on Monday. (Tomer Appelbaum)
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Tamir: Attempts to impose state education on Haredim will fail
By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent

Education Minister Yuli Tamir said Monday that attempts to impose educational criteria on the ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) would meet with certain failure.

Tamir made the remarks in the keynote address at a conference on education in Holon. She was referring to the exemption of a section of ultra-Orthodox students from studying the Education Ministry core curriculum.

The minister said: "Is there a single person in this hall who believes that if the core curriculum is imposed on the Haredi world, Haredi schools will close down and the children will come to state schools and center their happiness around Zionism?"

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"Is there anyone who thinks that if studying Judaism and Zionism studies is forced on Arabs they will join hands and dance in circles on independence day?" Tamir asked.

Tamir stated she had no confidence that talks with ultra-Orthodox leaders would succeed, but said she was sure that forcing the core curriculum on the sector's students would fail. She said, therefore, that in pursuing dialogue she was choosing a course of possible failure over one of certain failure.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also participated in the conference, as did President Shimon Peres and Finance Minister Roni Bar-On.

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  1.   don`t impose, just link it to funding 01:22  |  joe 28/08/07
  2.   If minimum standards arent met, take away the money! 03:21  |  Joe 28/08/07
  3.   LOL! Two different "Joes" but the exact same obvious opinion! 03:24  |  Joe (the latter one) 28/08/07
  4.   Rabbi Yosef`s remarks 04:16  |  Bryna Weiss 28/08/07
  5.   LET THEM PAY 04:18  |  TOBIA 28/08/07
  6.   Require Jewish studies as well 06:04  |  Mordechai 28/08/07
  7.   Tamir and Haredim are united by anti-Zionism 08:08  |  no name 28/08/07
  8.   Israel is a mess 08:36  |  steve 28/08/07
  9.   Just pass laws saying you won 09:05  |  Dave 28/08/07
  10.   "Let them pay" 09:07  |  Michael 28/08/07
  11.   don`t discuss 09:55  |  Rami 28/08/07
  12.   The Eda Haharedit 10:58  |  Avi Yerushalmi 28/08/07
  13.   Money Talks..... 11:06  |  Gary 28/08/07
  14.   RE;Rabbi Joseph`s remark-it`s his job-we atheists 11:25  |  Susanna/Shoshanna 28/08/07
  15.   to Michael 11:58  |  Puhi 28/08/07
  16.   ITS EASY NO SCHOOL NO MONEY 12:18  |  PAUL HARRIS 28/08/07
  17.   U.K. and U.S.A. 12:25  |  Ben Azai 28/08/07
  18.   Funding ((re: #15, #16) 13:09  |  Michael 28/08/07
  19.   #18 all taxation michael is "stealing" 13:45  |  victor hardman 28/08/07
  20.   Those who have no use for the modern world 13:50  |  Mark Lincoln 28/08/07
  21.   Amen! Require Jewish studies as well. 15:00  |  AV 28/08/07
  22.   Seculars must work for freedom from within halakha 15:02  |  AV 28/08/07
  23.   to AV 15:35  |  the pope 28/08/07
  24.   State education 15:55  |  Cyasher 28/08/07
  25.   the state has lost all 16:46  |  Shelley 28/08/07
  26.   Equal Time 17:03  |  Avi Yerushalmi 28/08/07
  27.   "Judaism is better than Islam or Christianity" 17:12  |  AV 28/08/07
  28.   The Total Bancruptcy of the Secular Sector in Israel 18:01  |  NB 28/08/07
  29.   State Education 19:21  |  Cyasher 28/08/07
  30.   #11,Rami-what exactly makes Israel a "Jewish" State? 19:29  |  not important 28/08/07
  31.   Israeli Schools already teach Jewish Text 19:57  |  B`galil 28/08/07
  32.   #12_avi-what happened to the Jewish law of following 19:58  |  not important 28/08/07
  33.   Question for hapless Tamir 20:24  |  Sidney 28/08/07
  34.   yes you cannot force hareidim to lower standards 20:44  |  Joe Jew 28/08/07
  35.   Michael and tax benefits 20:45  |  john 28/08/07
  36.   Secular schools teach ignorance 20:51  |  Joe Jew 28/08/07
  37.   B`Galil 21:15  |  Avi Yerushalmi 28/08/07
  38.   Americans must master Shakespeare. Israelis must master Gemorrah. 21:44  |  AV 28/08/07
  39.   3 32 22:34  |  Avi Yerushalmi 28/08/07
  40.   Why would MK Tamir frame the question this way? 23:32  |  DJStahl 28/08/07
  41.   Probably better to transliterate it "Gemara" 23:38  |  DJStahl 28/08/07
  42.   answer to Sidney 23:47  |  marbpl 28/08/07
  43.   AV-- NOT TRUE 00:38  |  JOJO 29/08/07
  44.   # 8 steve 01:57  |  DANIEL 29/08/07
  45.   The insane will prevent the education of their children 03:10  |  Mark Lincoln 29/08/07
  46.   Joe Jew - and which works? 04:55  |  Mark Lincoln 29/08/07
  47.   Shakespeare is required in my US public highschool 08:14  |  Hal 29/08/07
  48.   Charedim need life skills and understanding of other ideologies 08:20  |  Joe 29/08/07
  49.   Are all members of Peace Now, like Tamir and Peretz, incompetent? 08:25  |  Hal 29/08/07
  50.   Re #46 the question posed 08:34  |  DJStahl 29/08/07
  51.   Mark Lincoln, I feel you are just as extremist 08:35  |  Terje 29/08/07
  52.   to Mark Lincoln 08:51  |  Puhi 29/08/07
  53.   If she`s sure it will fail 10:38  |  sh 29/08/07
  54.   SURE...ANY "EDUCATION" WILL BE REJECTED! 11:54  |  Robert 29/08/07
  55.   #32 suicide is not "folowing the law of the land" 11:58  |  Joe Jew 29/08/07
  56.   Mark Lincoln and proof of ignorance 12:07  |  Joe Jew 29/08/07
  57.   Bid To Obtain Funding Should Also Fail Then 17:26  |  F.Airplay 29/08/07
  58.   Re #46, #52 The inability to reason; Jeeves 01:09  |  DJStahl 30/08/07
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