by Hillel Fendel
It was Besheva that broke the story, just over two weeks ago, of the 3rd-grade pupil in a public-religious school class who had presented herself as a boy throughout 1st and 2nd grades. When her classmates and their parents discovered the truth at the end of last year, anger and resentment were great at the teachers and Education Ministry staffers who knew the truth but hid it.
By Emmanuel Shilo, translated by Hillel Fendel
Netanyahu succeeded in combining the two strongest religious-Zionist parties, and then managed to persuade much-smaller Noam to join as well. But there is still the issue of the amateurishly risky run by the combination of Ayelet Shaked and the remnants of the Jewish Home – liable to cost the nationalist camp up to three Knesset seats, leaving the government in left-center-Arab hands.
