PM was ‘responsible’ sixth-grader, evaluation shows
08/28/2012 03:43
Netanyahu visits Henrietta Szold Elementary School, which he attended as a child.
Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened the school year yesterday at
Jerusalem’s Henrietta Szold Elementary School, his alma mater, and was greeted
with a surprise: an original copy of his sixth grade evaluation from teacher
Ruth Rubenstein.
Luckily for Netanyahu, he was a good student. According
to the evaluation, Netanyahu was courteous, polite, helpful to his parents and a
reader. Rubenstein called Netanyahu’s work “responsible and
punctual.”
She also wrote that Netanyahu was friendly, disciplined,
cheerful, brave, active and obedient in the social category.
“If you
invest in your studies, they will write things like this about you and maybe you
could become prime minister one day,” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat told the
class.
Barkat also presented Netanyahu with a copy of his late brother
Yonatan’s evaluation, which, like his own, was located in the city’s
archives.
After visiting the Szold school, Netanyahu traveled by
helicopter to the Aseh Hayil School in Efrat and declared that Efrat and Gush
Etzion represent the southern gates to Jerusalem and “will always be part of the
State of Israel.”
“We are building Efrat and Gush Etzion with enthusiasm,
faith and responsibility; thus we are also building education,” the prime
minister said. He went on to speak about the new state plan that went into
effect Monday to offer free education for children starting at age
three.
“This saves parents NIS 800 a month, NIS 8,000 a year, but it is
mainly an opportunity to educate children from the roots to the top. I wish that
each of you achieves everything that you want. [As Theodor Herzl said] If you
will it, it is no dream, and today, the state is offering its support.”