Minister of Education Yoav Kish has taken moves to increase the study of Tanach in State schools such as beginning the subject already in second grade.
In a program about the issue on Channel 14, panel participants admitted that their children were ignorant of basic Judaism.
Avi Shushan, a spokesman for Ichilov Hospital, said, “My child is in first grade in a secular state school… and I’m ashamed that he doesn’t have a single lesson on basic Jewish concepts. I take him to shul when he wants to come, and he doesn’t know what a siddur is or Shema Yisroel… We’re raising a generation of ignoramuses.”
Panel member Yotam Zamri said, “In the end, they’re trying to make a change. I also studied in an elementary school a long time ago, and I also left school without knowing what Shema Yisroel or the siddur was. This is not a sudden new decision. The State of Israel has been making sure for decades that a child should not have a Jewish basis because it’s afraid of it.”
{Matzav.com Israel}