The United Nations guarantees haredi rights to an independent educational system in Israel, claims MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism).
In a recent interview with Merkaz Igud HaTatim, a journal distributed to haredi educators across Israel, Porush revealed what purports to be an official United Nations decision concerning cultural autonomy in Israel.
If verified, the document would be the first known official recognition by the international body of haredi rights to cultural autonomy within the Jewish state.
The decision was reportedly reached by the UN during the winter of 1947/1948, following lobbying efforts by a delegation of Agudat Yisrael representatives.
The delegation is said to have included Yaakov Rosenheim, Aharon Goodman, and Moshe Porush (Meir Porush’s grandfather) among others.
According to Porush, the document obligates “The State [of Israel] to provide proper education to Arabs and to Jews, each according to their language and traditions. The right of each community or group within a community to maintain their own educational institutions for their members in their own language shall not be violated or impinged upon, so long as they fulfill general educational requirements the state may impose.”
If you search the UN website at UN.org, you will find many documents from the Agudah and from Neteurei Karta from both before there State and the early years of the State.
ReplyDeleteSo the independent educational institutions can be compelled to "fulfill general educational requirements the state may impose"? Or disbanded if they refuse?
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