Israel education minister forgets classroom manners
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's education minister used the "s"-word during a televised session of a parliamentary committee on Tuesday -- and it didn't stand for school.
"She just told me, 'piece of shit,'" legislator Ronit Tirosh, a former director-general of the Education Ministry, exclaimed suddenly after Education Minister Yuli Tamir whispered something into her ear. "I can't believe it."
Tamir spoke up quickly: "No, what I said was that I am still cleaning up the trash and shit you left behind in the (educational) system."
Spectators at the hearing of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee responded with nervous giggles to what was, even for Israel's often boisterous parliament, unusually strong language.
(Writing by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Charles Dick)
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