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1 Sivan 5761 - May 23, 2001 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
NEWS
Education Ministry To Close Scientology Cult Atid School
by Betzalel Kahn
Deputy Education Minister Meshulem Nahari has announced that the Education
Ministry will close the Scientology cult- backed Atid school. The school,
in which scores of students from the Dan Bloc study, will be closed before
the opening of the next school year. The announcement was made in response
to a parliamentary question presented by MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni.
Two months ago, Yated Ne'eman published an article about a petition filed
with the High Court by Lev L'Achim, demanding closure of the Atid school.
In the petition, Lev L'Achim claimed that the Atid school was founded by an
organization called "For Progressive Education in Israel," which uses the
methods of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology cult. In its
decision, the Interministerial Committee for Investigation of Cults
determined that Scientology is a cult: actually the first cult discussed by
the Committee report.
Lev L'Achim demanded that the Education Ministry close the school in time
for the coming school year (5761-2). However, at first it received no
response from the Ministry. Organization activists recently learned that
the school had received a license for 5761, and was recognized as an
unofficial educational institution, enabling it to receive state subsidies.
Lev L'Achim had no choice but to turn to the High Court with a demand that
the Education Ministry grant no license to the Scientology school.
At the same time, in a parallel move, Lev L'Achim's anti- cult department
activists demanded that the Education Ministry retract its approval of
books written by cult leader L. Ron Hubbard: books that had purportedly
received approval for use as textbooks in the school system. Proudly saying
that the Education Ministry had indeed approved the books, the Scientology
cult publishing house issued a call to cult members to distribute the books
in every manner possible. "This is the first time we have ever received
permission from the Education Ministry to introduce our books into the
school system," advertisements for the book said.
Rabbi Moshe Gafni filed a parliamentary query on the issue with the
Education Minister, noting that the committee that had dealt with the issue
determined that Scientology is a dangerous cult that inflicts severe damage
on its members.
In his reply, Nahari said that the cult school had been required to comply
with demands that its teachers receive pedagogical training. In addition,
the school promised not to incorporate the cult leader's material into the
regular curriculum. However, as the Education Ministry supervisor who
visited the school related, the school had not complied with these demands.
As a result, it was recommended that the school be closed for the coming
year.
Nahari added that the cult leader's books were not approved as textbooks by
the Ministerial Department for the Approval of Textbooks. Nahari also said
that the Ministry forbade the cult publishing house to claim that the books
had received Ministry approval.
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of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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