Knesset members of the Orthodox Aguda Israel faction clashed yesterday with Deputy Premier and Education Minister Yigal Allon over plans to introduce “family life” (sex education) courses in Israeli schools. The Agudists, Rabbis Shlomo Lorincz and Menachem Porush. claimed that students needed to be educated for modesty and morality rather than “permissiveness.”
Allon, retorting sharply, reminded the Agudists that the sex education program was designed to combat ignorance which led to venereal disease, moral and psychological problems. He accused the critics of the program of trying to make sex taboo when, in fact, boys and girls growing up in a modern environment needed to be intelligently informed on the subject.
Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah conferred today with John Scall, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. The two diplomats meeting in the U.S. Mission to the UN. reportedly discussed the Middle East situation and the Security Council debate scheduled to begin June 4, in the context of Scali’s statement this week that the United States opposes any change in the wording of Resolution 242.
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