Posts by Tony Gallagher

  • Lessons for Israel on how shared education can bridge divided communities

    Lessons for Israel on how shared education can bridge divided communities

    Israel is a deeply divided society, a fact reinforced by separate schools for Jews, Arabs and Christians. In 1984, the Hand-in-Hand movement began working to build peace via a network of integrated, bilingual schools for Arab and Jewish children in Israel, but in recent days their bilingual Max Rayne school in Jerusalem has been the target of an arson attack.

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