From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
School for southern evacuees opens near Dead Sea hotels
Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel
The Education Ministry has inaugurated the first of several planned new schools designed to serve the population of evacuee children.
The school, whose name is to be determined later by the students and staff, is located in the Tamar Regional Council on the Dead Sea.
“The new school complex, intended for 400 students, includes 15 new classrooms: six are intended for students of grades 1-6, and nine are intended for students of grades 7-12,” the ministry says in a statement. It says the school is situated near the complex of hotels where residents of the Eshkol Regional Council have been evacuated to.
At least two further schools are planned to open soon, in the eastern Negev desert and in Eilat.
Since the war began on October 7, all these areas have seen a massive influx of evacuees from the Gaza border region, who were forced to leave their homes.
Eilat, in particular, has seen its population double in size.
