‘Feels like home’: Israeli school for migrant kids wins by bridging worlds
The second-graders have their pencil cases out and their notebooks open as they write down the words to a classic Hebrew song made famous by an icon of Israeli music.
Most of the children were born in Israel. But their mothers and fathers came here as asylum-seekers or foreign workers.
A visitor asks what countries their parents came from. “Eritrea!” shouts out one girl. “The Philippines,” chimes in another. “Nigeria,” answers a smiling boy in a bright red jacket.
On the walls are letters of the Hebrew alphabet, cardboard cupcakes connoting students’ birthdays coming up, and drawings the children made of trees to mark the recent holiday of Tu BiShvat, the Jewish version of Arbor Day.
The children are students at the Bialik-Rogozin School, which was opened by the city of
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