Netanyahu Just Made a Major Concession to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Parties. Here’s What It Means
Critics accuse Netanyahu of mortgaging Israel’s economic future by delinking educational funding from the requirement to teach core subjects such as English and math
Just months after a dispute over the extent to which Israel’s ultra-Orthodox schools should teach secular subjects threatened to tear apart the United Torah Judaism party, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have handed the ultra-Orthodox party an unprecedented victory.
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