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Illustrative: Palestinian students in the playground of a local school in East Jerusalem on November 2, 2006. (Orel Cohen / Flash90)
December 18, 2023, 5:48 pm
Twenty released Palestinian inmates set to return to Jerusalem schools in January
Social workers to decide in each case whether to allow student to return to school; some municipal officials fear they may have bad influence over peers
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Illustrative: Keshet high school students take an examination in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019 (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
September 2, 2022, 1:40 pm
Podcast: What back to school looks like for two Israeli teachers
Educators from Jerusalem’s Hartman and Keshet schools talk about their students and classrooms
By ToI Staff
Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters protest police violence and discrimination in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 18, 2019, 11:26 am
Ethiopian-Israeli parents petition against Haredi schools’ rejection of children
Petition charges that stonewalling by 4 Jerusalem Talmud Torahs is part of pattern of discriminatory behavior against the community
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: children on their way to school in Jerusalem, September 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 23, 2019, 4:04 am
Jerusalem will tweak posters in kindergartens banning entry to ‘minorities’
Fliers in capital’s daycare centers outline security regulations; anti-racism groups calls them ‘classic case of dehumanization of Arabs’
By AP and ToI Staff
A tour group listens to a guide at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem against the backdrop of the Old City in 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 14, 2018, 9:58 am
While those who aspire to run it posture and pontificate, Jerusalem is sinking
East Jerusalem is the largest Arab city in Israel, yet Israeli leaders seem content to let it fester in neglect, ensuring that the insolvent capital continues to decline
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Participants of the Teachers' Lounge coexistence project at a promenade overlooking Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Eyal Tagar)
September 2, 2018, 3:56 pm
Where ‘the other’ fears to tread: Teachers learn tolerance, so they can teach it
As schools resume, so does coexistence project for Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab educators; changing their outlook affects thousands of pupils — but some, including EU, oppose it
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative image of Palestinian schoolgirls in their small playground in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, on March 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 29, 2018, 12:44 pm
Massive funding influx won’t get East Jerusalem schools out of crisis, NGO says
Left-wing group Ir Amim says state is conditioning funding on adoption of Israeli curriculum, planned additional classrooms won’t alleviate large shortage among Palestinians
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Israeli kids wearing school bags for first day of school outside their home in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 14, 2018, 11:21 pm
Jerusalem parents call to bar East Jerusalem school bus drivers
Municipality rejects requests from dozens of Jewish families, says it doesn’t discriminate on basis of race
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A student takes a test in a school in Jerusalem (Flash90)
January 28, 2018, 7:10 pm
Jerusalem schools to strike for 2 hours after parent hits teacher
Mother attacked school employee she believed was mistreating her son; teachers’ union threatens further strikes over violence against educators
By ToI Staff
Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 7, 2018, 3:00 pm
Jerusalem workers strike called off as layoffs rescinded
Officials in municipality and ministries of finance and interior agree to 45-day grace period for talks on ways to make up capital’s chronic budget shortfalls
By ToI Staff
Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 7, 2018, 12:30 pm
Jerusalem city workers go on open-ended strike over budget fight, layoffs
Garbage piling up as municipal employees object to firing of 2,150 workers amid battle between mayor and Finance Ministry
By ToI Staff
The Jerusalem District Court (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 18, 2016, 4:53 pm
Jerusalem rabbi indicted on dozens of rape counts
Victim, now 20, files police complaint over acts alleged to have taken place at girls’ seminary six years ago
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a girls' seminary in Beit Shemesh, September 2014. The school in the photo is not connected to the Jerusalem case. (Flash90)
December 8, 2016, 12:41 pm
Jerusalem rabbi arrested on suspicion of raping student
Victim, now 20, files police complaint over acts alleged to have taken place at girls’ seminary 6 years ago
By ToI Staff
Working on a giant banner of loving kindness, at the back-to-school celebration in Jerusalem's YMCA on Monday, August 29 (Courtesy Dasee Berkowitz)
August 31, 2016, 2:49 pm
Back-to-school party celebrates the ABCs of coexistence
Just before the academic year starts, Arab and Jewish kids have a joint jamboree at Jerusalem’s YMCA
By Jessica Steinberg
Children arrive for their first day of school at the Paula Ben Gurion school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
October 7, 2015, 11:14 pm
Jerusalem high schools call strike over lax security
Lack of funds leaves schools without guards for part of the day, say mayor and parents, even as violence continues to rage
By ToI Staff
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