What school looked like in Israel decades ago, long before Zoom and tablets

Ahead of the new school year, which starts in Israel on Sept. 1, the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) is unveiling five rare photographs that go back nearly a century to classrooms of the past.With chalkboards and chalk, books and notebooks, wooden desks and modest classrooms, the images capture education in the land of Israel between 1925 and 1963, long before computers, presentations, smartphones and digital whiteboards.The earliest photograph in the collection was taken in Kfar Hasidim in August 1925. Instead of a traditional classroom, the children of the moshav are seated in a circle beneath the broad canopy of a tree, listening to a lesson held outdoors in the field.The simple, almost idyllic scene also tells the story of a period when education, work and nature were closely intertwined in the country’s growing agricultural communities.A photograph taken 15 years later, in 1940, captures the library of the Spitzer…

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