For Israel

          I came to Israel because I care for the Jewish people. I became a teacher because I care about the future of the Jewish people and I believe that I am here today to make the world a better place. I try to teach my students these principles as well. English is the medium of my instruction. However, its not just a gateway to learning about the world, language is a way to touch a soul. My students learn to appreciate language through gaining insight and respect for other people, cultures and nations. Genuine language is based in empathy. I teach Emotional Intelligence, the building blocks of success in a career but more importantly the material for being good person (Daniel Putnam).

      Truth be told all good teachers are naïve teachers. If you don't believe in the greater good, leave the profession. You weren't cut out for it. This unshakable belief in the good has brought me to Israel, teaching and to you today. The promise, this hope has brought the Jewish people home and is protected by laws and individual rights.This standard is very clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence

Provisional Government of Israel
Official Gazette: Number 1; Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 Page 1

The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

I think that as a representatives of education we have fallen short of living up to the moral standard represented in the principles this coutnry was founded upon; the standard we should be encouranging of our students as well as ourselves. 

Despite my overt success in the classroom, I have not been given a clear professional reason for my dispatchement. I therefor wonder, if not for me professional skills than on the basis of what am I being asked to leave? The grades speak for themselves as to student academic achievment. In addition I would like to boast that

1)I moved up more than half of my class to five points in ALL of my classes except the AP class which cannot move up any futhur. 

2)My students in the AP classes have written university level work and I can show it to you.

3) Students reflection essays testify to the depth of leaning that we have reached in our class. 

I was given no warning of disapproval of my teaching during the year. Considering the success of my students and the good relationships I have with staff members, I was shocked to hear that I was being fired. 

extensive prodding on my part, I still have not been given a coherent reason for my deployment dispite. Therefor, I ask myself, if it is not for professional reasons than for what reason have I been dispatched?


I would like you to show you the statistics below. Woman and especially religious woman are by far disadvanged in this respect one must assume based on their their religion and sex not their professional qualifications.

פטורי קיץ שיורת הטעסוקה ישראל

 I am the only notably religious woman represented on the English staff. Is that one the reasons I was fired? Perhaps its because I married and of child-bearing age? It it because of my age? Because I am from a different country? When no professional reason for my dispatch can be cited one must reason that it must be based on personal reasons.

In additional I was fired without a Shimuya? Sometimes I wonder who needs an education. The students or the teachers? For what reason do you teach and work in education? Because the question of being a good teachers is comes down to what you do. Look what I have done and please learn from my story.