Knesset Education Committee Chairman Tzvi Sukkot arrived Thursday morning under heavy security at the Ruad al-Alam al-Mudajjiya school in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. The visit focused on an educational institution receiving millions of shekels from Israel’s Education Ministry while teaching ‘Palestinian’ Authority curriculum that incites against Israel and encourages terrorism.
Sukkot’s tour is part of a broader effort to strengthen governance in Arab sector educational institutions, aiming to stop violence and prevent education for crime and terror. Sukkot is leading a determined fight against funding schools that teach content inciting to terror and operating against cooperation with the State of Israel.
Knesset Member Tzvi Sukkot made clear during the tour that “educational institutions in Kafr Aqab enjoy budgets of tens of millions of shekels from the Education Ministry of the State of Israel, but in practice most of them teach students in schools content that encourages incitement to terror from the ‘Palestinian’ Authority.”
The committee chairman added in a sharp and clear message: “We are here today to make clear to them that the party is over. Whoever incites to terror and encourages support for terrorists—needs to be shut down today and certainly should not receive a shekel from the state.” He emphasized that “the ‘Palestinian’ Authority encourages and finances murderous terrorists with blood on their hands. A child who is educated today against the State of Israel and learns in school materials from the Authority that encourages terror—he is the next terrorist.”
During the tour in Kafr Aqab, stones were thrown at the forces securing Knesset Member Sukkot and his entourage. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident. The incident underscores the tension and security challenges in the area.