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Education, Inequality, and Hope: A Conversation with Don Futterman of ICEI
In this episode of The Tel Aviv Diary, host Marc Schulman speaks with Don Futterman, Executive Director of the Israel Center for Educational Innovation (ICEI), about his life journey from Queens to Kfar Saba and his mission to transform struggling Israeli schools. Futterman shares how ICEI’s literacy-based model is helping close Israel’s deep educational and socioeconomic gaps—especially among Ethiopian-Israeli, Arab, and Bedouin students—by retraining teachers, rebuilding school culture, and reigniting children’s love of reading and learning.
The discussion also turns deeply personal as Don…
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