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This chapter analyzes state-religious education (SRE) in Israel, a faith-based school system. SRE is an ideological education system whose aim is to enhance religious-Zionist ideology through the curriculum, school climate, and the ideological orientation of the teachers who are its agents. SRE schools socialize their students to this specific ideology. The chapter presents a chronological diachronic historical description of SRE followed by a socio-historical synchronic analysis of the SRE in relation to the development of the religious-Zionist movement. SRE policy and organizational structure are analyzed and the major dilemmas and main achievements of the SRE are described.
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Interestingly, in the time of the Mishna and the Talmud, the same dilemmas arose: rabbis considered the question of whether studying Greek knowledge and culture was permissible. Initially, this was rejected; then it was agreed that only the elites could study Greek, and later, it was allowed for the sake of bread winning (Lieberman, 1984).
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Gross, Z. (2011). Israel: State Religious Education in Israel. In: Miller, H., Grant, L., Pomson, A. (eds) International Handbook of Jewish Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0354-4_67
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