The haredi Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said male and female 9-year-olds cannot be properly educated in together in the same school and doing so is against halakha (Orthodox Jewish law).
Above: Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
Chief Rabbi Lashes Out At Gender Integrated Grammar Schools
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The haredi Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said male and female 9-year-olds cannot be properly educated in together in the same school and doing so is against halakha (Orthodox Jewish law).
“How can you educate children who are nine, ten or even older in the same school?” Yosef mockingly asked during a talk commemorating the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of the Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, better known as the Baba Sali, earlier today, Yeshiva World reported. He went on to stress that establishing such integrated schools is against halakha and should not be done.
Most Zionist Orthodox grammar schools are traditionally gender integrated, and Yosef’s remarks were seen as an intentional attack on that movement. Yosef’s Sefardi haredi Shas Party is battling the Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi Party for power, control, and resources inside Israel’s uneasy coalition government.