Growing pains: Tel Aviv schools struggle to cope with baby boom

The education department at Tel Aviv city hall has seen intense activity in the past few weeks: Various parents’ groups have been fighting the municipality’s decisions to change the registration zones for schools, close down some schools and demolish school buildings and rebuild them.

They’ve called strikes, sent petitions and used political pressure. The different protests have a single cause: a significant increase in the number of schoolchildren in the city, requiring the building of new schools, some of which are under rapid construction already.