Current sectionIsrael NewsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeShahar Feinstein Gavriel, outgoing principal of the Shapira Neighborhood School. "I can point to failures. But between them, in the cracks, are many moments of meaningful relationships."In a radical experiment, Shahar Feinstein Gavriel put children from Israel's wealthiest families and children of asylum seekers in the same classrooms, side by side. Did it work?10:02 AM • July 04 2026 IDTShahar Feinstein Gavriel didn't actually know what lay in store for him. So on one of the last Saturdays of summer vacation, he decided to visit the neighborhood in which he was planning to create a new primary school. Setting out from home in Be'er Yaakov, a small city near Rishon Letzion, he, his wife and their young son wandered through the Shapira neighborhood in south Tel Aviv.In the NewsAn Israeli Principal Desegregated a Tel Aviv School. Here's What HappenedA Palestinian Was Paralyzed. The Settler Who Shot Him May Never Be InvestigatedFuneral for Iran's Slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Begins in TehranDumber Than a 10 Year Old: Are Israeli Students Really That Stupid?The Gift Jews Gave to America on Its 100th Birthday in 1876Remembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIAdvanced Israeli Systems Sold to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Documents and Images ShowIsrael 2026 Election Poll Tracker: The Latest ProjectionsIsrael Has Long Ignored Warnings of a 'Diplomatic Tsunami.' Now It Has Arrived103 Nails on the Map: How Israel's Government Is Burying the Two-state SolutionTop Israeli Diplomats Accuse Mamdani of Antisemitism Over 'Jewish State' RemarkNetanyahu Trolls Trump and Turkey: Why Israel Recognized the Armenian Genocide