At a gala ceremony which was recently held at Orot Israel College’s Elkana campus, 153 graduates were awarded B.Ed. degrees. In attendance were Rav Professor Neria Guttel, President of Orot Israel College; Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat; Rav Chaim Fogel, chairman of the board of trustees; Rav Chaim Saban, Orot’s vice president; a representative of the Education Ministry; and the graduates’ families. In his keynote address, Rav Eliyahu spoke passionately in favor of women going out to work, earning academic degrees, and having professional careers. “The stereotype of a woman’s role in supporting her family is inaccurate,” Rav Eliyahu said. “We just have to listen to the words of the ancient song, ‘Eishet Chayil,’ and we’ll see that even then, it was accepted and proper for a woman to go out to support her family in the fields of commerce, manufacturing, wisdom (for example, the fields of research and science), and certainly the field of education.” Orot Israel College congratulates our graduates and extends our best wishes to them for continued success in all their future endeavors.
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