The Israeli government defeated two no-confidence motions sparked by the education minister’s decision to include the works of a Palestinian poet in the school curriculum. Yossi Sarid’s proposal to have schools teach the works of Mahmoud Darwish has created controversy because of the poet’s anti-Israel writings.
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