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| From the Media |
| | | | | By Tomer Zarchin, December 29, 2009, Haaretz
"When young people are left to become embittered, when they are shunned and not accepted - what do you expect to happen?"
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| | | | | By Ziva Galil, September 9, 2009, Ir Amim's blog on the Huffington Post
September 1 was 'Back to School" day for a million and a half children and teenagers all over Israel. Schools opened in Jerusalem, too, but in East Jerusalem tens of thousands of students do not have the choice of attending a State school. | | |
| | | | | By Abe Selig, August 30, 2009, JPost
More than 35,000 east Jerusalem pupils will not be attending state-run schools when school opens on Tuesday, according to a new report released on Sunday by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which states that some 1,000 public school classrooms are lacking in the capital's Arab neighborhoods. | | |
| | | | | October 21, 2008, Ma'an News Agency
The education system in East Jerusalem is complex, often mystifying, and local lobbying or international aid is only putting a small dent in the growing crisis. | | |
| | | | | By Etgar Lefkovits, September 10, 2008, Jerusalem Post
Education Minister Yuli Tamir said Wednesday that Israel is working to bridge the gaps that divide east and west Jerusalem classrooms despite the political uncertainty over the future of Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem. | | |
| | | | | By Abe Selig, September 9, 2008, Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and Education Minister Yuli Tamir are scheduled to visit the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Umm Lison on Wednesday to inaugurate two new schools recently built there. | | |
| | | | | By Tim Franks, September 6, 2008, BBC News
Tim Franks has been to meet some of the children who do have places in public classrooms, but finds the conditions in which they are being taught to be crowded and unsafe. | | |
| | | | | By Abe Selig, September 1, 2008, Jerusalem Post
But the attentive glamor bestowed upon both Peres and Lupolianski was contrasted by their next stop - the Beit Safafa Elementary school in the Arab village of the same name - a 10-minute drive from Baka, positioned neatly along the Green Line, which effectively separates Beit Safafa from the neighboring Arab villages in the nearby West Bank. | | |
| | | | | By Jonathan Lis, April 18, 2008, Haaretz
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski is planning to enlist world Jewry in a fund-raising drive for East Jerusalem's Arabs, in a bid to counter Hamas influence in local schools. | | |
| | | | | By Meron Rapoport, December 13, 2007, Haaretz
The Jerusalem municipality is discriminating against East Jerusalem students by not providing places of study for everyone, and is thereby contravening its legal obligation, the municipality's own legal counsel says in a letter addressed to the mayor and all senior city hall officials. | | |
| | | | | By Ehud Zion Waldoks, November 12, 2007, Jerusalem Post
An additional 1,500 classrooms are needed for students from kindergarten to 12th grade, the committee was told. Moreover, 15,000 children aged three and four have only two classrooms, and at least 1,660 three- to four-year-olds are at risk of developmental difficulties. | | |
| | | | | By Dafna Golan, October 3, 2007, Haaretz
Although the school year began on September 2, Na'ima, 9, is still at home. Not one school in the city could find a place for her. Thousands of pupils in East Jerusalem are in the same situation. | | |
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