Unofficial Nakba study kit a hit with teachers

14.06.2011                      12.Siwan, 5771 

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Unofficial Nakba study kit a hit with teachers

The kit called 'How do you say Nakba in Hebrew?' did not receive the ministry's approval and most of the teachers using it conceal their source.

When Shira (not her real name ), a history teacher at a junior high school in the center of the country, mentioned "nakba" in a class three years ago, none of her students had any idea what it referred to.
Today, she says, the word just surfaces naturally among the students. They know about it and talk about it. According to her, the reason is clear – Amendment 40 to the Budget Foundations Law, more commonly known as the "Nakba Law."…