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IDF to teach personal responsibility to high school students

Initiative aims to teach high school students meaning of IDF values and personal responsibility. Thousands of soldiers to tell legacies about Israeli achievements

Thousands of IDF soldiers and officers plan to sweep through some 450 Israeli schools on Wednesday, toting manuals and maps as part of a new IDF initiative aimed at strengthening the students' pride in Israel's achievements, and to enforce a sense of personal responsibility for change and growth in the country. IDF officials hope the initiative will also tighten the bond between it and the school system.

 


Officer evacuated to hospital during Lebanon war (Photo: Elad Gershgoren)

 

Initiative promoter, Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force Eliezer Shkedi, believes that teachers have the strongest effect on each new generation of pilots, and therefore hopes to strengthen ties between the education system and the IDF.

 

The project's coordinator, Colonel Moshe Edery, told Ynet "we are not going to talk about evasion of service or motivation. Instead, we have chosen to emphasize the achievements and successes of Israel, just before the 60 years independence celebration."

 

Among the thousands of soldiers expected to storm the schools are Air Force and Navy soldiers, officers, Paratroopers, Armored Corps soldiers and others. According to the initiative's guidebook, it will begin with an extensive discussion meant to include all of the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students.

 

The 11th grade students are scheduled to hear about values and personal responsibility straight from the mouths of the officers, who are supposed to share personal anecdotes about an important deed performed by a single person. "We want to show how Israel, though a young state, has accomplished so much in many areas," Edery said.

 

In addition, the soldiers are meant to tell legacies about the State's security, such as 'Operation Noah's Ark', during which the battleship Karin A was captured in January 2002; and two of the more well-known operations of Israel's Second Lebanon War.

 

"Over 300 thousand students are expected to take part in this initiative, planned with the full cooperation of the Education Ministry. We feel certain that after each of them hears what we have to say, they will be able to think more clearly about what they can do personally for their country," Edery concluded.

 


פרסום ראשון: 03.23.08, 00:12
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