1,500 new Olim (immigrants) who have made their Aliyah since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic will enter school in Israel on 1 September.
The Jewish Agency for Israel helped these families settle in Israel and created a stage for their arrival before the start of the school year. These new Olim arrived between early March and the end of August from about 30 countries.
Despite the serious effects of the coronavirus crisis on the ability to move freely between countries, the Jewish Agency has managed to get these olims to fulfill their dream of Aliyah. According to the rules of the Israeli Ministry of Health and other regulations, all families had to be quarantined for two weeks upon arrival, after which they were ready for integration into Israeli schools.
Most of the Olympians who will start their first year of school in Israel this week are young people and adolescents, ages 6 to 17, who will join elementary schools, schools and the best schools in the country. Hundreds of others are elderly youth 3 and who will start preschool.
At Jewish Agency absorption centers in Israel, young people were ready for their first year of school, where they received school supplies and tablets for distance learning.
On Sunday, the president of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, met with some of the young men who arrived at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel and gave them a recommendation and recommendation to make new friends, telling them: You left the places you knew and returned to Israel. You did the Aliá at a time when I was almost to move around the world. We explain our most productive love and desires for some other successful school year here in Israel as Israelis. I hope that your adaptation to your new schools will be harmonious and full of new friends and learning.
Since the beginning of March, these Olims have come from countries around the world, including: Russia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, United States, France, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic, India, Panama, Dominican Republic and Hong Kong.
“I’m pleased to be here. I can’t wait to start school, but I’m a little afraid of Hebrew,” said Dmir Gasimov, a 9-year-old boy who has been doing Aliyah since Ukraine. It’s a laugh to be in Israel, there’s beach and I have precisely the backpack I wanted. “
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