If she knew that the letter she wrote would cause such turmoil in the Israeli educational system, it’s doubtful whether she would have written it. About a week ago, Sapir Sabah, a 12th-grade student from the northern town of Kiryat Tivon, sent a personal letter to Minister of Education Shai Piron, in which she complained about one of her teachers. In her letter she told him that her civics teacher doesn’t stop slandering the state and insulting its most sacred values.
“The teacher emphasizes that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is an organization that behaves with unusual brutality and violence, unlike other armies,” she wrote. “He explains that the IDF is patently immoral and that he is ashamed of the military of our country.”