Education minister calls for grades 5-6, 11-12 to immediately return to school

Education Minister Yoav Gallant calls for the immediate resumption of classes for grades 5-6 and 11-12.

“For the Israeli people, the children come first,” he writes on Facebook.

After students in those grades return to school, Gallant says he’ll push to reopen junior high schools.

Since Israel began rolling back a national lockdown last month, only preschools, kindergartens and grades 1-4 have reopened.

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