Dear Mr. Michael: I am still under the impression of the extremely pleasant hour I spent with you yesterday evening. I left convinced of your profound interest in our area of discussion. Your questions conveyed a rich understanding of the historic significance of Torah education for our people. Your telephone call this morning was most encouraging, and it is my pleasure to submit this memorandum as per your request. In thinking through the ideals of the forthcoming proposal, I was keenly aware of what its implementation could mean for the spiritual future of tens of thousands of our children in Israel. The following is a basic proposal and will be followed with a supplementary one: Chinuch Atzmai comprises two divisions; for the education of boys and girls respectively. Chinuch Atzmai, which established the entire system, directly supervises their educational program, and is directly responsible for the maintenance of their budgets. The girls’ network consists of 125 schools, whose educational program is patterned after the original Beth Jacob movement in Poland. Beth Jacob was founded by the renowned Sura Schenirer, of blessed memory, and later spread throughout the countries of Europe. Prior to the second world war, the Beth Jacob movement was directly responsible for saving an entire generation of Jewish girls from assimilation and ignorance of Judaism. Its graduates revolutionized the character of the entire European Jewish community. Since the war, the Beth Jacob ideal has struck deep roots in both contemporary major Jewish communities, America and Israel -- but with a specially dramatic impact in Israel.Just as the term Yeshiva has come to signify the standard type of Jewish education for boys, equally has the name of Beth Jacob become representative of Torah education for girls.In the recent history of Beth Jacob in Israel, we have been faced with one crucial problem of major proportions. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, some 85% of the immig…