By Judah Ari Gross - August 31, 2022
Dima can count to 10 in Hebrew. He knows how to say “yes” and “no” and “what’s that?” but his vocabulary is fairly limited beyond that. This week though, he will start first grade at Yitzhak Sadeh Elementary School in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam.
“He doesn’t speak Hebrew fluently yet, but he’s picking it up quickly,” his mother, Yulia Pizh, told The Times of Israel last week, speaking in Russian through a translator.
Six-year-old Dima is one of the more than 1,311 Ukrainian immigrants who will enter the Israeli school system at the start of the academic after they fled to the Jewish state due to the Russian invasion of their country, according to the Education Ministry.
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