When Sireen Nijem graduated in 2010 from her neighborhood private school, she didn't plan to study at an Israeli university. "I planned to register for a degree at Birzeit University [in the West Bank], but I traveled there, and it took three to four hours with all the checkpoints," the East Jerusalem resident says. "I decided that it's not what I want to do for four years."
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