Leaders of the Religious Bloc today adopted a resolution stressing that all the Orthodox parties in Israel will carry on a fight against the government’s education policy. They rejected a plan offered by the Israel Government which recommended that religious education be given to all Yemenite children in the camps without their having to register for it. Religious education for other children, however, will be given only if they register for it.
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