Erstwhile members of strictly religious communities seek damages from state that funded system they claim is inadequate
AFP ÔÇö They were already in their 20s the first time they ever heard about dinosaurs or even tried their hands at maths and English.
Now a group of young Israelis who left the closed world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism are demanding answers from the state which funded their strictly religious education in Jewish seminaries, known as yeshivas.
Despite years of studying, all they were exposed to was religious texts and their interpretation, leaving them clueless about the basics of the national curriculum.
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