The religious parties in Israel which are represented in the Cabinet today presented an urgent request to the government to reconsider the existing procedure for conscription of religious girls. Leaders of these parties claimed that the present procedure does not comply with the agreement reached between them and Premier David Ben Gurion.
Meanwhile, the House Committee of the Parliament today requested Prof. Ben Zion Dinaburg Israel’s Minister of Education, to explain why he decided to transform the General Zionist Teachers Seminary in Jerusalem into a government seminary with “government trend.” The religious groups see in this action the danger of changing the present trends in the education system in the country.
Resolutions condemning the Government’s reported intention to propose a national school system and calling for continuation of the present system of education by “trends, “were adopted here at a country-wide conference of the Mizrachi, the Religious Zionist organization. The conference, however, proposed to the Poale Agudah Israel the merger of the religious school systems into one.
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