Adult Education

Editor: Ido Bassok

Graphic Design: Studio "Shoshana Shahar"

Published by: Publications Department, Ministry of Education

Table of Contents

Editor's Note 6

Adult Education in Israel and Around the World: Achievements and Outlining a Policy

An Overview of Adult Education in Israel Rachel Tokatli 9

Proposal Paper: Developing a National Policy to Foster Adult Learning in Israel 34

Lifelong Learning: Right and Benefit, Duty and Responsibility Rina Cohen 65

The Global Revolution in Adult Education on the Seventh Decade of Israel Eitan Israeli 85

A Renaissance of Jewish Culture and Tradition in Israel

From the Cemetery to the Study Hall (Bet Midrash) Chaya Rowen Baker 104

׳Dis-Assimilation׳: Reclaiming of Jewish Identity in Europe - The Experience of Paideia Barbara Lerner Spectre 115

Bina Center for Jewish Identity and Hebrew Culture Rami Porat and Ayala Vitzner 127

Building a Bridge in a Complex Cultural Reality at The Ya'akov Herzog Center Complex 4 Noah Hayut 135

Gvanim - Fostering Jewish Pluralism in Israel Tamar Alperovich and Shraga Bar-On 150

Promoting Zionism at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center Moshe Fuksman-Sha'al 159

Judaism, Beyond Ideology - Interview with Dani Danieli, Director of Beit Avi Chai 166

Fostering Leadership in Adult Education

The Maarag Program for Excellence in Jewish, Zionist and Civic Education Ohad David 175

Creating Leadership in Education - Review of  Educational Identity as a Main Factor in Developing Leadership in Education by Mordechai Nissan – Rina Cohen 186

Editor: Dr. Ido Bassok

Editorial board: Ms. Magi Koren (chairperson),

Ms. Rina Cohen, Dr. Sara Rubinstein, Dr. Eitan

Israeli, Mr. Shalom Buchbut, Ms. Ruth Friedman,

Ms. Sarah Golan, Ms. Rina Laor

Editorial council: Dr. Zivia Rahimi-Shafran, Ms. Hanna Blau,

Mr. Uri Dromi, Dr. Jonathan Mirvis, Dr. Noah

Hayut, Mr. Shalom Buchbut, Ms. Ruth Bloom

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ISSN 0793-033-033

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Editor’s Note 6

Adult Education in Israel: An Overview 8

Eitan Israeli - Thoughts on the State of Adult Education: 

The Glocalization Paradox 9

Magi Koren - Ad Halom Project - Parents Learn and Children 

Succeed: What we Learned and What we Achieved Up to Now 37

Digital Technologies and Adult Education:

The Challenge 52

Introductory Discussion: Digital Citizenship - The Adult 

Learner as an Effective User of New Technology – Interview with Nava Gilad 53

Integration of New Technology in the Education System:

Models and Goals 60

Orit Avidov - Ungar and Yoram Eshet-Alkalay - Islands of Innovation:

A critical analysis of a model for innovation implementation

 in school systems 61

Miki Kritz - Online Academy Leads Change in Schools: 

Integration of Learning Technologies in the Multi-Cultural Context 91

Dalit Levy - Two Types of MOOCs: An Overview 106

The Effects of New Technology on Learning 118

Rakefet Ackerman - On-Screen versus On-Paper Learning:

Which Media Enables More Effective Learning and Why? 119

Ofra Razel – Technology for the Benefit of Individuals with 

Special Needs 132

New Technology and a Changing Perspective

about Teaching Hebrew 143

Rina Zaslavsky, Vera Agranovsky and Evgueny Maryanchik – Using New Technological Tools to Teach Hebrew as a

Second Language in the FSU 144

Parents and Children in an Online World 160

Elizabeth Gal-on and Rina Cohen - Parents and Parenting in 

a Developing Digital Reality: The Challenge of Significant

Parenting in the Internet Age 161

Editor: Dr. Ido Bassok

Language editor: Dvora Bitcover

Publication date: Summer 2015

Editorial board: Ms. Maggie Koren (Chair), Ms. Rina Cohen, Dr. Sara Rubenstein, Dr. Eitan Israeli, Mr. Shalom Buchbut, Ms. Tsippi Mazar, Ms. Ya'ara Seroussi, Ms. Sarah Golan

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Editor – "He who Considereth the Poor" - Dramatic Change Needed in Our Approach to Excluded Populations 6

Adult Education in Israel – An Overview 8

Inclusion in Regular Education, Academization, and Nurturing Hebrew-Language Skills to Promote Excluded Populations' Integration in the Workplace - Overview

Rina Laor – Integration and promotion in the workplace: What has been done? What needs to be done? 10

Gila Schwartz-Shahar – ״Towards Employment ״ – Integrating

Different Population Groups into the Workforce by means of Employment Programs in the IACC: Principles and Action 22

Inclusion of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli General Education and the Israeli Workforce

Betzalel Cohen – The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel – Between Integration and Segregation 42

Rina Cohen Sutzkever – A Multicultural Approach to Adult Learning – The Critical Path to Integrating the Ultra-Orthodox Population in Employment 50

Shirley Marom – Military Training for the Ultra-Orthodox Population and its Contribution to Integration and Promotion in Employment 65

Maayan Shahaf – The Ultra-Orthodox Pre-Academic Program for Men 84

Asaf Malhi – From Skullcap to Mortarboard – Academic Studies in Ultra-Orthodox Society 104

Maayan Shahaf – Supplementing Ultra-Orthodox Education – The Issue of Women 126

Liat Kulik – Attitudes towards the World of Work and Employability Strengths Among Ultra-Orthodox Working Women 136

Roi Canaan – Training Teaching Staff in ״Achiya ״: Pioneers in the Ultra-Orthodox Boys ׳ School 152

1. R. Sharabani–How to 'Make a Likeness': An Art Institute for the Ultra-Orthodox 163

Mayer Fialkoff – A Personal Reading in a Research about the Emergence of an Ultra-Orthodox Middle-Class in Israel 173

Advancing the Israeli-Arab Population's Hebrew Language Skills and Education to Promote Occupational Inclusion

Shirley Marom – The Importance of Hebrew for Integrating and Promoting the Israeli-Arab Population in the Job Market 185

Sarah Golan – Teaching Hebrew to the Arabic-Speaking Sector in the Adult Education Division: Changes in Syllabuses to Meet Current Needs 214

The "New Oldsters" as a Working and Learning Population

Zev Golan – Senior Citizens: Our Largest Reservoir of Unexploited Resources 231

Developments in Adult Education

Zvika Amir and Haim Portnoy – Developments in Adult Education – A Survey of Adult Skills in Israel and Abroad 268

Sharon Green and Uri Marcus – A Community-Center Based "Social Network" for People with Disabilities and Special Populations 284

Editor: Dr. Ido Bassok

Language editor: Dvora Bitcover

Editorial staff: Ms. Maggie Koren, (Chairperson), Dr. Sarah Rubenstein, Ms. Rina Cohen, Dr. Eitan Yisraeli, Mr. Shalom Buchbut, Ms. Yaara Seroussi, Ms. Sarah Golan

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Editorial - Adult Education: Many Paths to the Same Destination 4-6

Education and Employment: An Inseparable Pair? On Education and Higher Education as an Introduction to Work

Nitza Davidovitch – Access to Higher Education in Israel: The Dream and its Shattering 8-22

Moshe Shenfeld – Former Ultra-Orthodox Jews: From Falling Between the Cracks to a Genuine Opportunity 23-37

Rina Cohen – The Source of Success: The Influence of Parents on Learning and Employment 38-57

Ella Barzilai and Ayelet Uriel-Raymond – Volunteer Employment Mentors as a Support System for the Advancement of Low-income Workers 58-66

Arabs in Israel vs. Hebrew: Coping Methods

Orly Kayam and Tiana Hirsch – Family language policy, language practice, motivation, and planning among  Israeli Arab students 68-83

The Eradicating Ignorance Campaign: Evaluation and Summary from a Fifty-Year Perspective

Esther Schely-Newman – First Steps: The Operation Eradicate Ignorance: A Fifty-Year Perspective 85-102

Rachel Tokatly – From "Eradicating Ignorance" to "Tehila": Summary Statement 103-120

50 Years Commemoration of Mordechai Martin Buber (1878-1965), Philosopher of Adult Education and Initiator of Israel's First Center for Training Adult Education Teachers

Tamar Kron – Dialogue in Adult Education 122-136

Buber's Outlook on Adult Education: A Compass in a Directionless World - Interview with Professor Dan Avnon. Interviewer: The editor 137-149

Ron Margolin – Jewish Nationalism as Religiosity without Religion: The Meaning of Judaism According to Martin Buber and the Role of Education in Presenting this View to the Public 150-163

Adult Education: Research and Action

Zvika Amir – The Competencies Survey in Israel, B: Designing Exercises and Developing Competencies among Respondents 165-179

Editor –Transforming Adult Education in the Bedouin Sector in the South: Our Division Leads the Way 180-187

Research Staff RAMA (National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education) -  The Ad Halom [= Parents learn and children advance] Project - Summary and Recommendations 188-194

Adult Education in Israel – An Overview

Rachel Tokatly - Formal and Non-Formal Adult Education: Provision of Opportunities for Literacy, Numeracy and basic skills in Israel 196-215