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Saturday, May 4, 2019
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Over 200,000 kids in south get day off school
Some 210,000 students who attend school in Israel’s south will get a day off because of continuing tensions with Gaza. Authorities have ordered all schools within a 40-kilometer radius of the Strip to remain closed Sunday.
Authorities also say workplaces that do not have access to a bomb shelter will be shut, but all others are remaining open.
Some parents are unhappy about the arrangement.
“I don’t understand how it’s possible to cancel school without shutting non-essential workplaces,” one mother is quoted telling the Maariv news site. “Who will watch our kids, Iron Dome?”
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