While desegregated schols are becoming increasingly popular, there is still much work to be done. As Christine Deakers writes in "Israel-Pealestine Constructivist Schools: How education solves the conflict"
The structural violence of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is built into the educational system in Israel. A majority of families in Israel send their children to segregated schools, promoting antagonistic viewpoints and attitudes that “other” their fellow man. Separated from learning about the other culture indirectly exploits the youth into becoming proponents of violence because they are taught to think of the other as an enemy.
While most schools Israel are still segregated--Jewish and Arab, religious and secular--since Neve Shaom Wahat-al Salam was established, their mission to "engage in educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples" has spread to other communities in Israel that I hope to feature in the future.
For the time being...
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