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Israeli schools must teach about the fate of North African Jews during the Holocaust

Aug 21, 2019
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Israel will include the story of the persecution of North African Jews under the Nazis as part of the high school’s compulsory history curriculum, writes the Times of Israel.

The Holocaust as a historical subject was removed as a compulsory subject in the high school students’ final exams (bagrut ) four years ago by the then Minister of Education Shai However, the Piron teachers were allowed to teach the Holocaust as a research project. At the time, the decision was criticized by academics and history teachers.

Former Education Minister Naftali Bennett reintroduced Holocaust education as a compulsory subject in the high school students’ rear window exam shortly before he was fired in early June by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The current Minister of Education, Rafi Peretz, has decided that the fate of the Jews in North Africa (Mizrahi Jews) during World War II will be included as a compulsory subject in the rear window examination.

According to Yedioth Ahronot, the subject will be taught in 12th grade (equivalent to 3rd grade).

“For years, the history of Jews living in Muslim countries during the Nazi occupation has been absent from our discourse, ”Peretz said in a statement. “The painful stories of thousands of Jews sent to concentration camps and forced to participate in the death marches.”

According to the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem, the 415,000 Jews in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were subjected to anti-Semitic legislation following the establishment of the Vichy regime in France. In addition, thousands of Jews from Libya were sent to concentration camps.

Baghdad’s pro-German government did not prevent attacks on the country’s Jews, yet the Farhud pogroms in the city have not been universally recognized as part of the Holocaust.

Earlier this year, Yad Vashem changed two of his key prayers for Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yizkor Prayer and El Maleh Rahamim – to include Jewish victims from North Africa.

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