Feature: Israeli schools re-open amidst fears of a COVID-19 case surge.

The education ministry has come up with stringent guidelines on how the school year should be conducted.

Photo by Gil Cohen MagenXinhua).

While younger children have been divided into smaller groups and will attend school between five to dix days a week, the older students will conduct most of their studies at home.

Children of the fourth grade and above will be obligated to wear a mask at all times.

As measures were lifted, children returned to schools in mid-May.

In the beginning, only the younger students returned and studied in small groups.

I hope that the new regulations will guarantee that there will be no major outbreak of the virus because of the opening of the school year.

For weeks, the education ministry has been working on a framework for schools and still, just days before the first bell rings, there are matters which have not been resolved.

Related organizations have threatened to strike due to the inequalities.

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