Culture war in Israel targets ultra-Orthodox Jews

[geek tragedy]

http://news.yahoo.com/culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews-201857374.html

Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing preferential treatment enjoyed by the religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to work and join the army, and remove funding for schools that don't teach math, science and English.

The religious — labeled "parasites" by one Lapid emissary this week — are crying foul. But they appear helpless, at least in the short run, to stop Lapid from pressing his agenda.

A reckoning that has been a long time a coming.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Well..

I certainly agree that schools that don't teach maths, science and English should not be getting funding from the state.

[delrem]

2. They should be shut down.

Not for the "English". That's dispensable. But math and science are necessary.

[King_David]

3. Good for Lapid,

The surrounding territories and states should follow this Democracy and do the same for their Madrassas .

[cali]

4. actually, English is not dispensable

like it or not, it's a necessity in the worlds of science, technology and business.