Jerusalem

===Arab schools===
[[File:Du-leshoni-2.jpg|thumb|[[Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel|Hand in Hand]], a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem]]Israel's public schools for Arabs in Jerusalem and other parts of the country have been criticized for offering a lower quality education than those catering to Israeli Jewish students.<ref name="HumanRights">{{cite web |publisher=Human Rights Watch |work=Second Class Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools |title=Summary |date=September 2001 |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/israel2/ISRAEL0901-01.htm |access-date=27 March 2007}}</ref> While many schools in the heavily Arab East Jerusalem are filled to capacity and there have been complaints of overcrowding, the Jerusalem Municipality is building over a dozen new schools in the city's Arab neighbourhoods.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221034883085&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |title=Bridging the gap |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916231636/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221034883085&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=16 September 2011 |first=Etgar |last=Lefkovits |date=10 September 2008 |access-date=24 July 2018 |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref> Schools in [[Ras al-Amud|Ras el-Amud]] and [[Umm Lison]] opened in 2008.<ref name="lis">{{Cite news |last=Lis |first=Jonathan |title=Mayor to raise funds for E. J'lem Arabs to block Hamas |work=Haaretz |access-date=9 September 2011 |date=21 April 2008 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976126.html |archive-date=13 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413071254/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976126.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> In March 2007, the Israeli government approved a five-year plan to build 8,000 new classrooms in the city, 40 percent in the Arab sector and 28 percent in the Haredi sector. A budget of 4.6&nbsp;billion shekels was allocated for this project.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/839099.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607102540/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/839099.html |archive-date=7 June 2008 |title=8,000 new classrooms to be built in Arab, ultra-Orthodox schools |author=Or Kashti |date=18 March 2007 |access-date=22 July 2009}}</ref> In 2008, Jewish British philanthropists donated $3&nbsp;million for the construction of schools for Arabs in East Jerusalem.<ref name="lis" /> Arab high school students take the ''[[Bagrut]]'' matriculation exams, so that much of their curriculum parallels that of other Israeli high schools and includes certain Jewish subjects.<ref name="HumanRights" />