The Changing Institutional Setting and Social Problems of the Israeli Educational System.

This article focuses on a social research dealing with the changing institutional setting and social problems of the Israeli education. This paper has two aspects. One, its major one, will be an analysis of the development of educational system in the Jewish community in Palestine and later in the State of Israel, of changes in its organizations, social functions and problems. These changes will be related to broader social changes and development which have taken place in the social structure of this country. While these developments and problems have of necessity been specific to this country yet in some ways the general trends of their development can be compared to some parallel ones in other countries. Researchers shall attempt, at the end of the paper, briefly to draw some broader comparative indication. The focus of the concrete analysis will be the way in which the three major social spheres which constitute the "social arena" of education, family and youth culture and their interrelationships developed in the different periods of the development of the Yishuv.