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plan to appoint Israel Defense Forces officers to high schools around the
country.
The three students chained themselves to the entrance to an auditorium in
which Brigadier General Yonatan Loker, commander of the air force's Hatzerim
base, was due to give a lecture.
The students said they were protesting "the military takeover of the
education system and [the plan to] turn high schools into military
preparatory academies."
"We are declaring our opposition to the placing of military figures inside
schools, a factor which would contribute to the dissolution of civil society
and its total militarization," the students said.
Police officers were called to the school following the incident.
The invitation to Loker was made in the framework of widening cooperation
between the Education Ministry and the IDF's Education Corps according to
which officers will escort high school students through their final years of
studies and will encourage their draft into the army.
In the first phase of the plan, officers will be assigned to 74 high schools
around the country. The following year, the project will be expanded to
include 250 high schools.
Activist organizations, including Courage to Refuse, have expressed their
opposition to the involvement of the military in the country's education
system
