It’s also another thing to be forced to study Islam.
The back story to this controversy is the Haredi objected because much of the arabic texts inevitably were a back-door attempt at Islamic conversion -— or at least were a de facto study of Islam.
Islam obviously has a integrated history with Arabic. Christians and Jews spoke Arabic long before Mohammed went to his cave.
Arabic is not hard to learn for a Hebrew speaker. Its like learning German for an English speaker.