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HILLEL DAY SCHOOL
60TH ANNIVERSARY
GALA
CELEBRATE 21 IYAR 5778

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2018

AT HILLEL DAY SCHOOL

32200 MIDDLEBELT ROAD FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48334

DREAM MAKER AWARD HONOREE
BRIAN HERMELIN

RABBI JACOB E. SEGAL (Z”L) AWARD
HONOREES
CLARA GABA, ADINA LEVIN,
MALKA LITTMAN, AYALA PERLSTEIN,
RIVKA SCHUCHMAN, AND PAM SMITH

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
RECIPIENTS
RACHEL LUTZ (‘94)
MARK SCHOSTAK (‘77)

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STROLLING DINNER
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7:30 P.M.
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March 29 • 2018

jn

Israeli Parents Want
Kids To Be Doctors

Survey shows parents favor careers
in tech or engineering.

SUE SURKES TIMES OF ISRAEL

T

he classic stereotype of the Jewish mother who wants
her child to be a doctor or lawyer is only partially true
in Israel, a survey published last week showed.
While most Israeli parents do want their children to go
into medicine, law is only the seventh career preference par-
ents harbor for their children, after high-tech, engineering,
science, business and
accounting.
Careers as police offi-
cers, rabbis and enter-
tainers were at the bot-
tom of the list.
Out of 18 potential
professions they would
like to see their children
going into, 57 percent of
parents chose medicine
and 52 percent chose
high-tech, when asked
as part of the annual
Ministry of Science and
Technology survey.
Engineering came in third place (picked by 48 percent of
parents) and science in fourth (34 percent). Business took
the fifth slot, followed by accountancy and law.
Careers as army officers or teachers were chosen by 16
percent of parents and banking by 13 percent.
The careers of parliamentarians and journalists took 12th
place, the latter jumping up five places, compared with
last year’s poll, in one of the most significant year-on-year
changes.
Parental choices for their children have remained more
or less constant over the seven years that the ministry has
undertaken the poll.
In some fields, gender-related differences in parental
preferences seem to be reflected in their children’s choice of
jobs. Medicine is the preferred profession for women, while
high-tech is considered No. 1 for men, and it is still widely
seen as a male fiefdom. Only one in three high-tech work-
ers in the country today are women, and most of them are
working outside of the male-dominated area of technologi-
cal development.
Engineering — also male-dominated in Israel — was
picked by parents twice as often for boys as for girls.
Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis said, “Work
in the sciences and technology offers a wealth of opportuni-
ties for women and men to actualize themselves. Investment
in human capital and in science infrastructure takes Israel
to breakthroughs in the field and improves [the country’s]
international standing.”
The survey was carried out by the Geocartography compa-
ny, among a representative sample of Jewish and Arab adults
during the first month of March. •