{"id":218651,"date":"2025-09-11T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:57:11","slug":"education-ministry-issues-ultimatum-to-haredi-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218651\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry issues ultimatum to haredi high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Shai Calderon, head of the Education Ministry&#8217;s Haredi District, sent a notice to the heads of haredi girls high schools in Beit Shemesh, warning that if they do not accept the students placed in their schools, they will lose government funding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Under this ultimatum, the principals must accept the students registered with them by the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Last week, the Education Ministry revoked, in an unprecedented fashion, funding for a haredi girls high school in Jerusalem which refused to accept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/414317\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">students placed there<\/a> through the official student placement system.<\/p>\n<p data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The Ministry&#8217;s sharp, resolute decision indicates a significant change in policy in how it handles haredi educational institutions which refuse to cooperate with the Ministry&#8217;s placement instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Also last week, Degel Hatorah&#8217;s MK Moshe Gafni <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/414210\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke at a school inauguration<\/a> in Beit Shemesh, urging Shas: \u201cOpen new educational institutions, as would be expected for a quality community, so your daughters have a place to study pleasantly and comfortably, without needing to crowd into our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Shas quickly responded, stating: \u201cThe Shas movement&#8217;s life mission is to establish top-tier educational institutions for the Sephardic public, and that is what it has done, with great success, for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-v-aae4f51f=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The party added with irony: \u201cKudos to Rabbi Moshe Gafni for emphasizing how important it is that the Shas movement remain strong and independent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Calderon, head of the Education Ministry&#8217;s Haredi District, sent a notice to the heads of haredi girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119307,119309,95026,119308,99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-218651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-education-ministry","9":"tag-haredi-education","10":"tag-haredim","11":"tag-high-school-girls","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115186725372880044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}