Jerusalem, 30 October, 2024 (TPS) -- For the families of Kibbutz Yehiam, sending their children to school during Hezbollah’s daily rocket barrages on northern Israel was a difficult task.

“The local authorities decided to send the children back to elementary school, but the only school is half an hour from Yehiam,” Yehiam resident and mother of two Roni Egozi Aberman told The Press Service of Israel. “While they decided to send the children back to school, they didn’t renew school buses.”

This meant that each child would have to be driven by their parents twice a day for half an hour each way, without any cover, under missile fire. The community’s residents, however, were determined to find a safer way to educate their children.

“The parents here got organized. They got together and decided to arrange their own school, here in the kibbutz,” said Egozi Aberman, whose children are in fourth and fifth grade.

In addition, it was important to the parents of Yehiam that the school itself be safe.

As a result, the kibbutz’s bomb shelters and protected rooms were converted into classrooms — organized by subject. Around 112 students in grades 1-6 now learn at the kibbutz, but the number varies with children from nearby communities also attending if it is safe for them to drive.

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