%0 Journal Article %T Beetween the Kippah and the Smartphone. An Essay on Contrasts in the Israeli Education %A Chaczko, Krzysztof %J Labor et Educatio %V 2015 %N 3 (2015) %P 103-120 %K Israel, education, school system, multicultural %@ 2353-4745 %D 2017 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/labor-et-educatio/article/pomiedzy-kipa-a-smartfonem-kilka-rzutow-myslowych-na-temat-kontrastow-w-izraelskiej-edukacji %X The paper presents the contrasts in the Israeli education. First part presents the legal basis of education in Israel – Compulsory Education Law (1949), State Education Law (1953), Council for Higher Education Law (1958), Special Education Law (1988), Students Rights Law (2000) and discussion on the structure of the education system. Next, compare four separate school system – public state schools, public religious state schools, public Arab schools and the “private” but publicly funded “ultra-orthodox” or Haredi schools. The paper ends findings about the contrasts in the Israeli education and the discussion on difficult situation of graduates of public Arab schools and Haredi schools.