A Tel Aviv principal integrated affluent Israeli and asylum seeker children in one school. Here's what happened

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?

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A Tel Aviv principal integrated affluent Israeli and asylum seeker children in one school. Here's what happened

Shahar 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 IDT

Shahar 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.

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