“The very popular news site ynet.co.il ran an article about Open
Source penetration in Israeli schools…“Even though the Israeli Ministry of Education puts much
emphasis on Microsoft products (i.e. Teaching Excel as part of the
curriculum, publishing a tender for on-line remote education
requiring support for Microsoft Internet Explorer while not
mentioning international standards (or Firefox) and offering school
faculty near free Microsoft products), Open Source activists are
beginning to make a change in this scene…”