Some 45% of children evacuated from their homes in northern and southern Israel as a result of the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah have been enrolled in at least three schools this year, data collected by the Israeli Education Ministry and seen by Channel 14 showed.

According to the data, around 50,000 Israeli students from first to twelfth grades have been evacuated from their homes. 30,000 of these have still not returned to their homes and have been forced to finish the school year in the area to which they have been evacuated.

In the southern region, 19,661 evacuated students remain. 11,669 of these transferred to a new school together with their original classes, occasionally even with their original teachers. Notably, students from this group did not transfer schools an additional time.

However, some 35% – over 7,000 students – transferred to an additional school, their third since the beginning of the year. 5% of these were unable to integrate successfully into the additional school either, and transferred to a fourth, or even fifth, school.

Among students in the northern region, the data is even worse. Some 60% of evacuated northern students who finished the school year in the area to which they had been evacuated were found to have been to at least three schools, with only 30% having transferred together with their original classes.

According to the Education Ministry, 1,200 evacuated students have dropped out of school, having had difficulty finding substitute learning frameworks.

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