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Dec. 18, 2020
It was an ordinary winter day in Tel Aviv, but in a small apartment on Ha’Aliyah street there was great excitement. At the appointed hour, 6-year-old Nahum and his mother Tzega went out the door and walked hand in hand down the noisy street, the seam line between the Florentin and Neveh Sha’anan neighborhoods. Their destination was fairly close, the Druyanov School in Florentin. Just 850 meters away. They enjoyed walking the route.
The event at the school that Friday morning was an open house for kids going into first grade. Just a few days earlier, Tzega had received a phone call informing her that this is where her son would attend school in the coming years. Her hopes were coming to pass. And during that visit to the school, they grew. The faculty and staff described many of the school’s wonderful attributes, like the hydroponic garden, the “sustainability room” and the art room. Towards the end of the day, one of the teachers gave out a gift to t