Nati Tucker (right), age 15, with one of the rabbis at Or Israel Yeshiva, where he studied. “The state is completely absent. There is no supervision, and the admissions process is like the Wild West.” Credit: Family album
Nati Tucker attended one of the elite high-school yeshivas – a system generously funded by the state, with no core curriculum requirements, funneling hundreds of millions into private hands. He explains why it closes off opportunities for generations of Haredi boys and amounts to a state betrayal