ABSTRACT
The system of religious schools in Israel is inextricably linked with the more general aspects of the multicultural nature of Israeli society and, in particular, the primary role of religion and attitudes towards religion in that society. These in turn are connected with Israel being a Zionist Jewish State with a sizeable non Jewish minority as well as the traditional status of religious-ethnic-national groups in the Middle East. Discussion of these complex issues would necessarily take us well beyond the confines of this short paper. Thus we will merely note them herein.1
