{"id":4860,"date":"2006-09-10T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:12:31","slug":"epalestine-ynet-new-yorkers-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/09\/epalestine-ynet-new-yorkers-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] YNET: New Yorkers to study about Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why am I not surprised?  If my visa issue does not get resolved, I offer to donate my time to teach these educators a little about Israel that they will never even hear of in these spin classes.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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It’s sad that time and funds are being spent on this when US students are one of the lowest scoring in the world in math and geography.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Gasping for some common sense on Israel in the U.S.,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam    <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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New Yorkers to study about Israel  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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City council approves curriculum on Israel initiated by Israeli Consulate in New York; curriculum to be integrated into training program for educators teaching in 1,400 public high schools  <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Yaniv Halili Published:   09.08.06, 20:36  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK – The New York City Council’s education committee approved a curriculum on Israel initiated by the public relations department of the Israeli Consulate in New York.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The curriculum will be integrated into the training program for educators teaching in 1,400 public high schools in New York City. The teachers will be able to register to a 30-hour course dealing with the history of the State of Israel, its economy, the high-tech industry, Israeli art and Ethiopian Jews.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The incentive offered to teachers who will take the course: Credit points for an academic degree.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The teachers responded so positively to the course, that by the third day of registration all seats were taken. Following the teachers’ request, the consulate decided to add more seats.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Israeli Consul General in New York Aryeh Mekel said that "through the teachers a generation of leaders will be educated to maintain the special relations between the United States and Israel."  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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We are not bringing politics, but are exposing them to Israel as we know it and as we would like people to know it," he added.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3301443,00.html<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Dear friends,   Why am I not surprised?  If my visa issue does not get resolved, I offer to donate my time to teach these educators a little about Israel that they will never even hear of in these spin classes. It’s sad that time and funds are being spent on this when US students are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}