Quick takesBrazil-Israel stand-off over embassy appointment; teaching German to children refugees
Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Brazil, Reda Mansour, has completed his tour in Brasilia last week and returned to Israel. Brazil, however, is unwilling to accept his replacement — Dani Dayan, a former head of the Jewish settlement council in the Palestinian territories who lives in the occupied West Bank; Germany is in the process of recruiting 8,500 teachers to teach German to children of refugees. The German government estimates that about 196,000 refugee children will enter the German school system this year.
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Diplomacy: Israel, Brazil in a diplomatic stand-off
Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Brazil, Reda Mansour, has completed his tour in Brasilia last week and returned to Israel. Brazil, however, is unwilling to accept his replacement — Dani Dayan, a former head of the Jewish settlement council in the Palestinian territories who lives in the occupied West Bank. The announcement last month of his appointment has rankled the Brazilian government, As is the case with most other countries in the world, Brazil supports the creation of an independent Palestinian state and regards the continuing disenfranchisement of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation as illegal. Israel’s Foreign ministry said on Sunday that it has no intentions of appointing someone else, and that if Brazil refuses to accept Dayan as ambassador, then the bilateral relations would be conducted at a lower diplomatic level.
Sprechen deutsch: Germany recruiting teachers to teach German to children refugees
Germany is in the process of recruiting 8,500 teachers to teach German to children of refugees. Germany expects the number of new arrivals in 2015 to be just over one million. The German government estimates that about 196,000 refugee children will enter the German school system this year. To teach them German and acquaint them with the German education system, 8,264 special classes have been established near refugee concentrations. The goal is to use the next nine months for intensive teaching which will allow the children to join regular German school in the fall after having caught up with their cohort. Germany’s education authority says that in all, 325,000 school-aged children have reached Germany in 2015.
