[jjotto]

Nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/255309/chinuch-atzmai-schools-must-include-core-subjects-in-curriculum.html

...Chinuch Atzmai schools are referred to as “recognized/unofficial” schools that receive state funding. When the individual schools submit their paperwork to renew their status and entitlement to funding, if they are not 100% in compliance with the new directive, they will not be accepted and lose most of their funding.

The permits of all Chinuch Atzmai schools expired and every school will have to apply for eligibility once again, and those failing to comply with the new curriculum will be without the majority of the schools’ funding...

[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm not focusing in on whether this is "discrimination" against the Christian schools or whether it is direcrted at all the faith-based schools including the Hasidim. In any case, the position of the Israeli Education Ministry seems self-contradictory, since their alternative for them all is that they can all become public schools.

I'll repeat what I wrote to Nachum:

It makes no sense for Israel, struggling with a budget crunch, to suggest that the Christian schools become public schools. Then the Israeli taxpayers would be shouldering, not a fraction of the financial burden, but ALL of the burden. How does that solve the government budget woes!?

[SJackson]

And Chinuch Atzmai schools are almost always portrayed as Jewish schools, despite the fact that many are Christian or Muslim.