Dimona is not a city commonly visited in Israel. It is in the southern part of Israel seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Relative to a more popular Tel Aviv or Jerusalem it seems to be in the middle of nowhere. Yet once in the city it is clean and modern.

At the local school are kids from Morocco, Russia, Iraq, India, Syria and other countries. In the high school you can nearly start a riot with a digital camera; the kids love to pose and yell for you to take a picture. They are incredibly confident and probably a little rowdy by our standards.

I wonder if a teacher in the United States had such a class if they would not put them on ritilin; how would they even handle this much energy in a class room?

In Israel this energy built a nation, and still does.

HKO 4/26/07

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