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Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Education minister: Evacuated students won’t start new school year in northern border towns
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Education Minister Yoav Yoav Kisch tells the heads of local authorities that students from northern communities evacuated because of the war will not be able to return to school in their hometowns in September and will instead continue to attend schools around Israel, Hebrew-language media reports.
This is due to the “security complexities” in the region, which has been subject to incessant rocket fire and drone attacks by the Hezbollah terror group from Lebanon since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7.
Calling the decision not to start the school year in the affected northern communities “regrettable,” Kisch calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “act now and strongly against the state of Lebanon.”
“There is no escaping the decision to wage a massive war against Lebanon in order to restore peace and stability to the residents of the north and for the future of the State of Israel,” he says.
