Three years after taking their first steps into an Israeli high school, 14 young Ethiopian immigrants at Boys Town Jerusalem have passed the true acid test for entry to Israeli student life: Like nearly every 10th grader in the country, they recently took the national, standardized bagrut matriculation exams. Yet unlike their Israeli counterparts, just […]
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Ashnafeh Entenne and Aterso Ubayu, both 16 years old, finished all formal schooling in their native Ethiopia by grade three. When they reached Israel four years ago, they returned to the schoolroom at last– literally worlds away– in a program for new Ethiopian immigrants at Boys Town Jerusalem. Amazingly enough, on their first national bagrut […]
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