Israel’s education system fails Zoom test
With an enormous number of poor Israeli students lacking computers and a state that seems unable to supply them, distance learning has no chance of success.
“Our greatest fear is that the gap between the weaker and stronger sectors of the population will expand in such a way that it cancels all the achievements of an entire decade,” Minister of Welfare Itzik Shmuli told Al-Monitor.
Israel may be an economic success story, but the coronavirus has revealed how large these gaps are, and how many Israelis don’t share in the wealth. Many children don’t have a computer at home, and in many hundreds of thousands of homes, several children have to share a single computer. Attending school via Zoom actually increases the gap between poor students and their wealthier friends.
