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Adam Verete

Israeli teacher who almost lost job for ‘leftist’ views gets fired

Adam Verete, the Israeli high school teacher who almost lost his job in January due to complaints by a student that he expressed “left-wing” views in the classroom, was fired by the school on Sunday. According to reports in Israeli media, the ORT school in Kiryat Tivon notified Verete that he was being dismissed due…

By Mairav Zonszein May 25, 2014

Sapir Sabah receives the “Jewish State” award, during a ceremony organized by former MK Michael Ben-Ari , Kiryat Tivon, February 9, 2014. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Rightists award student who persecuted ‘left-wing’ teacher

Far-right former MK Michael Ben-Ari and notorious Hebron settler Baruch Marzel hold an award ceremony for a high school student who tried to have her teacher fired for expressing “left-wing” views. A very strange ceremony took place in the small town of Kiryat Tivon, in northern Israel on Sunday. Former Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari gave…

By Activestills February 10, 2014

Free speech silenced (Yossi Gurvitz)

Embattled teacher compared to Dreyfus

The controversy surrounding an unsuspecting high-school teacher who was denounced by one of his twelfth-grade students for allegedly expressing left-wing views in class escalated rapidly this week. Adam Verete, the teacher from Kiryat Tivon, has unwittingly been dubbed ‘Dreyfus of Tivon’; a routine meeting of the Knesset Education Committee became a heated argument over the…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 23, 2014

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