Kisch and Dagan Agree on Regional Primary School for Ganim, Kadim and Noa

Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan have agreed to establish a regional primary school for Ganim, Kadim and Noa in northern Samaria. The school is intended to serve pupils in grades one through six. Dagan informed the chairs of the three communities’ committees of the agreement on Wednesday, November 11. The agreement follows a joint visit by Kisch and Dagan to northern Samaria more than a month earlier. Kisch called the school “a historic step in rebuilding the communities of northern Samaria.” He said it would provide children in the three communities with an educational framework in which to learn, grow and build their future, and thanked the council and education staff for their work. Dagan said the establishment of educational and public institutions would accompany the rebuilding of the communities. He described the school as a significant development for families returning to the area and placed it within the council’s Reconnection Plan, advanced with government ministries, Amana and the Settlement Division. Ganim and Kadim were among the four northern Samaria communities evacuated in the 2005 disengagement, alongside Homesh and Sa-Nur. The school agreement concerns the educational needs of Ganim, Kadim and Noa, 21 years after that evacuation.