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On the state of literacy in Israel By Shoshan Brosh-Vaitz Participating in writing section 7: Aliza Lazerson Reading: Prof. Gissi Sarig, Miriam Pozner, Dr. Zvia Valden Sources: Research literature, reports of academic and government research institutes, internal government reports, circulars of the Executive Director of the Ministry of Education and of the coordinating supervisor for teaching language, publications by the Central Bureau of Statistics, written and electronic media, Internet sites, academic interpretations, newspaper editorials, philosophical writings, literature, poetry, and songs, radio and television programs and interviews with key figures in the world of literacy in Israel. Tel-Aviv, Israel May 2005 Table of content Chapter 1 Israel’s uniqueness in the literacy arena: roots, reflections and diverse approaches to teaching literacy 1.1 Israel’s uniqueness in the literacy arena 1.2 Prologues 1.3 The Jew and the Sabra (native Israeli) – literacy amongst Jews in the world and in Eretz Israel in the early 20th century 1.4 From the people of the book to the people who live by the sword – literacy in the military debate 1.5 Education and literacy in Islam 1.6 Reflections – interim summary 1.7 The condition of literacy in Israel at the start of the 21st century: White bird/black fish 1.8 The development of a semantic field: Literacy and illiteracy 1.9 Diverse approaches to nurturing literacy 1.10 Approaches to teaching early reading in Israel Chapter 2 An Israeli profile Chapter 3 Ministry of Education official policy and targets 3.1 The meta-goals of language education 3.2 The official targets of language education in Israel 3.3 The official targets of language education while writing this report 3.4 Language education policy relative to the preliminary stages of the growth of literacy: emergent literacy in kindergarten 3.5 Language education policy in view of the principles of the official curricul