Mentions in the Media

Reprinted from The Jerusalem Report, March 2005

Yoni Goldstein

More and more families are keeping their children at home and encouraging them to learn whatever suits them

“I like drumming and tae kwondo,” whispers 11-year-old Joshie as we watch Naama, 9, perform the self-penned “Be Cheerful,” which sounds something like Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” on an electronic keyboard. As Naama finishes up, Joshie wanders off, but returns two minutes later. “What I really want to be is an actor,” he confides, “or maybe an author.” Later in the talent show at Moshav Ramat Raziel, in the Jerusalem hills, Joshie plays his interpretation of “Hatikvah” on the recorder, and there are an assortment of other musical interludes.

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Ari Neuman and Aharon Aviram’s 2003 research article on homeschooling in Israel (English):

http://web.archive.org/web/20070927231602/http://www.multilingual-matters.net/erie/017/0132/erie0170132.pdf

Reprinted from Haaretz Magazine

About thirty families in Israel are taking advantage of a clause in the compulsory education law which allows them to teach their children at home. Some of the parents reveal why they are so set against formal education

By Ella Komar

August 13, 1999

It is hard to imagine that Hani Ernestoff is only eight. Her wild, curly hair, her ruddy, tanned complexion, her fiery temperament and her independent free-thinking ways (not to mention her understanding of advanced mathematics) set her aside from other girls of her age. Hani’s mother would argue that her daughter’s development is not exceptional, but rather the product of a natural education outside of the stultifying methods and expectations imposed by the classical, institutional framework of the school.

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