Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), who chairs the Knesset's Committee on the Status of Women, led the debate held on the first ever Jewish Identity Day. She claimed that the only way to prevent assimilation is through education, in which the state is not investing enough.
"The assimilation struggle reaches headlines through stories of Jewish women marrying Muslims, but it's important to remember that this phenomenon is much broader. Over 92,000 families living in Israel are of mixed race," said Hotovely. "We need programs to teach young girls in high school about Jewish identity."
MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union) added: "The obstacle standing in our way is the legitimization of assimilation. No one sees assimilations as the downfall of the Israeli people. Golda Meir once said that a Jew who marries a non-Jew joins the six million."
Thursday, February 10, 2011
What planet are they on? Which century? Israeli parliamentarians toil against ‘mixed race’ couples
From Yedioth
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I can't say this enough: يعطيك العافيه
ReplyDeleteThanks Abu Zuhair. My pleasure..
ReplyDeleteNothing new. Back in 1965 Ofra Zazal (Oriental Jewish) and Edmond Haddad (Christian Arab) eloped to Egypt, married and settled there.
ReplyDeleteLater they returned to Israel where the marriage was annulled by the courts, as was Ofra's conversion to the Greek Orthodox faith (!). Edmond was thrown in jail.