If the haredi community is worried about possible sanctions hurting yeshiva budgets as a result of the Plesner Committee and whatever law might come out of it, they have more to worry about than they thought. They are about to get hit from another direction.

As a result of a petition to the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Education announced that they are considering cutting funding for any school that does not participate in the "MEITZAV" exams that are meant to measure the efficiency and academic growth of the schools and system. Haredi schools generally do not participate in these exams.
(source: Ynet)

Being that this exam is really a tool for the Ministry of Education to simply discover trends of improvement and growth and to see how schools are successful in teaching the subjects, I don't see why the haredi schools don't consider letting the kids take these exams. If they don't want to teach the subjects, that does not have to stop them from taking the exams. let the kids take the exams, and fail. They will keep the funding, the Ministry of Education will see the trends in the Haredi school system and everybody should be happy.

The MEITZAV exams do not require any specific education, they just measure the education. There are other laws that require specific types of education, but by government agreement, the haredi schools are generally exempt from those requirements. So don't study if you dont want to, but take the exams anyway.

That's my suggestion to resolve this crisis.


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