Israel cancels student trips to Poland amid security dispute

High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)
High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)

The Education Ministry announces that the slated travel of thousands of Israeli high school students to Poland this summer is being canceled amid a dispute with Warsaw over security for the delegations.

Before COVID, thousands of Israeli students would travel to Poland each year to visit concentration camps and sites of Jewish heritage.

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