ISRAEL GAZA WAR

HAIFA, ISRAEL -- JANUARY 22, 2024: Nardine Odeh standing teaches runs through math problems with students at the Hand in Hand School, an integrated bilingual school for Jewish and Arab children, in Haifa, Israel, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Pre-university education in Israel is largely segregated, with Jews and Arabs almost exclusively attending separate schools. But in 1997, two educators Ñ one Palestinian and one Israeli Ñ founded the first of a small network of schools that does things very differently. At the Hand In Hand school in Haifa and at six similar schools around the country, a diverse mix of young people study in both Hebrew and Arabic in classrooms taught by two teachersÑone Palestinian, and one Jewish. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)