Maybe you are right Shimi, maybe you are right. I expect you to lead by example. After such a terrible failure you should resign immediately.

ASSERTION: "The teachers need to stimulate students' imagination and curiosity and give them freedom to act. " ANSWER: "We fell in love with this country so deeply, but we mustn't forget that being civilized is no less important than living according to the Torah. We must make the utmost effort to invest in education, so that we can make the world a better place" Now ,Israel must sew assertion with answer by teaching teachers Torah´s ways so they can teach their children to be generous,imaginative,curious,creative and therefore FREE.

Please stop using the word "lynch" to dramatize the case. It was a riot, or a gang attack, or whatever. However a "lynch" is a hanging, which this was not.

human lives is less important than giving up that "holy land"

Are there really people who care what our president has to say. For years all I hear is a sound off flapping gums without any content.

B"H - "J'lem lynch" is not a lynch. Victim has a heart condition and likely suffered a heartattack. Velmer, stop using emotionally invocative terminology for your political purposes.

in 2000 in Ramallah where 2 Israelis –who lost their way– were brutally lynched by Arab Palestinian masses and its police in public square, the sheer animalism of mutilating and “playing” with their body parts while screaming in inhuman ways, revealed the real face of mainstream Arab-Muslim Palestine. They were describe by a British journalist eyewitness: “they were like animals.” The Italian crew who filmed the crime was threatened by Arafat‘s people. Was the Jersualem Arab lynched? ABSOLUTELY NOT! They use the harshes terminology because it never happens that Arabs get beaten up.

once again the extremist right wing haters line up to spew their poison... Good on you Shimon for standing up for decency.

Another shining example of secular israeli youth - well done charles - keep it up

6 million Jews were slaughter, one million Jews were beat up daily in Arab countries, just for being Jewish I was beat up every day coming home from school no body shed a tear for me. What is the big deal? a group of kids had a fight the majority won. Get over it, enough is enough, we are no better than anybody else

But it is missing a version in Hebrew. It would be very beautiful ,I think.

Where was his voice when Jews were attacked killed lynched kicked out of homes?

The view that the land and the state of Israel is inherently holy or sacred is idolatrous. Holiness can not be imputed to soil. It is a quality of being and certainly not that evident in Israel.

All Israelis are responsible for what Peres says and Peres is a vacuous windbag who habitually makes pompous proclamations to show what a great human being he is to us lesser mortals who don't raise our kids right. Israel, please upgrade your education system by dumping Peres as President.

Interesting Rabbi Ovadia said the same thing. Rabbi Yosef: Secular education corrupts kids

You're just jealous

peres hardly says a word. We raised generations of children that watched unelected old men become our presidents. Our children are watching a president that has a ghetto mentality and will do whatever he can to please the non Jewish world. Let the arabs fear to enter our cities and towns. We do not enter theirs. Finally abolish the office of the president and make sure old politicians and generals keep their mouths shut!

They have already killed more than 20,000 of their own people & still counting