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The Newsletter of the Israel Policy Center
Volume III Issue 5.. .. 1 Elul 5768 / September 1, 2008
 Israel Policy Center, Efrata Teachers’ Training College Launch Joint Program in Civics Education
The Israel Policy Center and Efrata College in Jerusalem are collaborating in designing and operating a program to train civics teachers for Israel’s high schools. The one-year, 24 credit program intended for teachers holding or studying for academic degrees will qualify them to teach civics in any Israeli high school, though Efrata specializes in training teachers for “national-religious” schools. Efrata intends to develop a full, four-year degree in political science and civics education and IPC will help shape the content of the program. more...
 IDF Provides IPC with Information on “Dangerous” Draftees
In response to the Israel Policy Center’s (IPC’s) demand, filed under Israel’s Freedom of Information Act, the IDF provided IPC with data on the number of draftees examined for representing, in the IDF’s opinion, a danger to the public. IPC suspects that “dangerousness” screening is being used a pretext to disqualify draftees on the basis of their political orientation or religious background.
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 Is Israel’s Attorney General Like
the Biblical Prophet Samuel?
By Uri Shtruzhman
The authority to crown kings emerges on the Jewish people’s national agenda during the period of the Judges, when “there was no king in Israel and each man did as he saw fit.” When the people realized that the method of appointing “judges,” as local rulers were then termed, failed to provide leaders of integrity and they decided to change the system of government that had ruled them for 400 years, they faced a constitutional vacuum. The constitution of Moses did not specify how the system of government could be changed. more...
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