Israeli schoolchildren and their parents awoke to another day of confusion and worry on Thursday, thanks to the joint efforts of a government that has trouble maintaining a coherent policy and a teachers’ union whose irresponsible conduct was only thwarted thanks to a labor court. But beyond the legal issue, this latest dispute once again demonstrated the enormous and malignant gap between setting policy and actually implementing it. Eight days ago, the prime minister, health minister and education minister announced a new policy for schools that was to go into effect Thursday. Under the new p