Is this how your kids start school?
September 1 - the day that Prime Minister Netanyahu will be dining with Abu Bluff in Washington - will be the first day of school for public schools here in Israel. And probably unlike where you live, the politicians will be out in force to visit the kiddies. Politicians on the Right intend to use the day to send a message to Netanyahu that the construction moratorium in Judea and Samaria must end as scheduled on September 26 and to Obama that continuing the freeze would harm West Bank children.But the best one of all is Yuval Steinitz (pictured), who may be the smartest guy (academically speaking) in the government.
At the request of the Knesset’s Land of Israel caucus, ministers and top MKs will spend the day visiting schools in the West Bank.
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and coalition chairman Ze’ev Elkin, who chairs the caucus, will visit schools in Efrat in Gush Etzion. Elkin will also go to a school in Tekoa.
Science and Technology Minister Daniel Herschkowitz (Habayit Hayehudi) will visit another Gush Etzion school and children of Gush Katif evacuees in Nitzan.
Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) is expected to tour schools in the Samaria Regional Council, Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein will visit a school in the Samarian community of Yakir, Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat (Likud) will be in Ma’aleh Adumim, and Minister-without- Portfolio Yossi Peled (Likud) in Alfei Menashe.
Deputy Minister for Youth Gila Gamliel (Likud) will be in Psagot and Shas MK Haim Amsalem will be not far away, in Kochav Ya’acov.
Asked whether the visits of the ministers to the settlements while he is in Washington would bother the prime minister, a source close to Netanyahu said, “The ministers have the right to express their views, especially in this case, when they are not different from those of the prime minister.”
On the Left side of the map, Minorities Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman will visit two Arab schools and Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer will go to trade schools in Tel Aviv and Ramat Efal.
Other ministers are devoting the school day to personal visits, not political ones. Tourism Minister Stas Meseznikov and Environment Minister Gilad Erdan will be accompanying their children to first grade in Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv, respectively.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will be visiting the Kfar Saba school that he attended as a child, which expelled the future minister for poor behavior.Don't tell your kid that one unless they've been kicked out of school already.
Heh.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:23 PM
1 Comments:
Our local high school has started with front page news of a kid who graduated from there in 2007 returning home in a coffin after being hit by an IED in Afghanistan. May his memory be a blessing. Not a word about it at the school except (thankfully) in the JROTC room. We are raising ingrates, heading for the Mad Max era. So hopefully, Carl, your politicians at the schools will foster gratitude to those making the life the kids lead possible.
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