News | Mary Curtius | October 5, 2000
Tami Dumai opened the doors Wednesday of the Arab-Jewish elementary school she runs in northern Israel, unsure that either students or teachers would show up.
News | Tracy Wilkinson | October 29, 1999
It was after dusk 43 years ago today. Arab villagers straggled home from work in the fields, unaware that the Israeli army had imposed a curfew. Border police halted one group of Arabs near the village of Kafr Qasem and fired on them at close range.
News | Marjorie Miller | May 30, 1998
When Lesia Mazon arrived at the Amirim Elementary School last September, the 9-year-old Russian immigrant was put directly into a Hebrew-speaking class even though she could not understand what her Israeli teacher was saying, ask a question in the language of her new country or read a book in the unfamiliar alphabet.
California | Local | Maki Becker | February 10, 1995
Once the Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School in Northridge joins the Internet this week, students there will be able to send and receive electronic mail from Arab and Jewish children at a junior-senior high school in Israel.
News | Mary Curtius | December 26, 1994
Red-haired Ariel Weiss embarrassed his young friends as they debated about Israelis making peace with their neighbors. "I don't mean to sound racist," he told his classmates, setting his jaw defiantly.
News | January 28, 1991
Students carried gas masks with their textbooks as Israeli high schools reopened for the first time since the Persian Gulf War began, and Foreign Minister David Levy said Israel was studying ways to stop Iraq's missile attacks.
News | September 1, 1990
Israel permitted the second Palestinian university in the West Bank to reopen Friday, nearly three years after it closed all four-year colleges in the occupied territories.