Most college students beginning a new year have a few typical hurdles to navigate. However, these challenges, albeit significant ones, pale in comparison to the experience of countless Israeli students as they start the 2024-25 school year: balancing their studies with military service.

DAVID BRUMMER DECEMBER 17, 2024

These students spent the past year grappling with a war on their country’s southern front, and more recently, its northern front. And now they are doing it all over again.

Orjwan Ghraba, an Arab Israeli studying sociology and human services at the University of Haifa, is worried about the safety of commuting to the university from her village of Reineh in northern Israel, considering that Hezbollah had been launching rockets at the border on a nearly daily basis.

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