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Ukrainian refugees Katja, left, and Ira Kapustenyenko watch a celebration at their new school in Nof Hagalil, Israel, on March 23. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Cnaan Liphshiz<\/p>\n

NOF HAGALIL, Israel \u2014\u00a0During Veronika Maidanova\u2019s first two days attending school in Israel, the 8-year-old felt completely lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone spoke Hebrew and I didn\u2019t understand anything,\u201d she recalled, weeks after fleeing her native Ukraine for the safety \u2014\u00a0but unfamiliarity \u2014\u00a0of Israel.<\/p>\n

Then her mother heard about a school focused on new immigrants where 90% of students speak Russian. She quickly enrolled Veronica in the Shuvu Renanim school in Nof Hagalil, a city of 41,000 in the Galilee where an estimated 60% of families speak Russian at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s really found her place, most of the students speak Russian, most of the teachers speak Russian and there are already friendships starting to happen,\u201d Lena Maidanova said of her daughter. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge relief.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 600 Ukrainians have come to Nof Hagalil since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, setting off a massive migration of Ukrainians to whatever country can give them safety.\u00a0About 4,000 Jewish refugees have already arrived in Israel<\/a>, with potentially tens of thousands more expected.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian children who have landed in Nof Hagalil and at Shuvu Renanim were living safe, stable lives just over a month ago. Now they have wound up in a foreign land, usually without their fathers because of Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0ban on letting men younger than 60 leave the country<\/a>, and often after experiencing trauma during the war\u2019s early days and their flights from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrifying to see a student shuddering in fear whenever a door is slammed too hard or an ambulance wails by,\u201d said Sara Neder, who has been Shuvu Renanim\u2019s principal for 12 years.<\/p>\n

Tetiana Denysenko, 36, stayed in Kyiv for as long as possible together with her 10-year-old son, Sasha, and his father in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it became impossible. The constant thud of bombs gave Sasha a trauma, and we saw our happy boy changing before our eyes, one sleepless night at a time,\u201d she said. So they left without Sasha\u2019s father, who expects to be conscripted into the military shortly.<\/p>\n

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Sasha Denysenko, a 9-year-old war refugee from Ukraine, waits for his mother on the lobby of the Plaza hotel in Nof Hagalil, Israel, on March 23. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now she and Sasha are staying in Nof Hagalil\u2019s posh Plaza Hotel, where the city is temporarily housing new immigrants for up to a month as they look for apartments to rent. Buses bring Sasha and other children back to the hotel from the Shuvu school each day, part of a sweeping effort to make the city welcoming for the new arrivals.<\/p>\n

At school, the staff talk and devote extra attention to the new arrivals to \u201ctry to make them feel as welcome and safe as possible,\u201d said Neder. The school has not offered dedicated trauma counseling, but the newcomers are \u201cdoing better than when they first arrived,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s in part because of Shuvu\u2019s experience educating children who have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The school is part of a network of 75 schools serving 6,000 students in more than a dozen Israeli cities that was established in the early 1990s specifically with the aim of inculcating Jewish values in children from the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Shuvu\u2019s founder was Avraham Yaakov Pam, a Litvak rabbi from Brooklyn who was born in the former Soviet Union and who had lobbied for providing religious education to as many Jewish children as possible from the wave of mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Having been raised under communism, those children \u2014\u00a0and their parents \u2014 had not had access to Jewish education.<\/p>\n

In recent years, as immigration from Russian-speaking countries waned, the schools had shifted to enrolling children from other countries as well as the children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Now, the war in Ukraine is renewing the network\u2019s original mission.<\/p>\n

Shuvu schools are able to choose whom they admit and what they teach, because the schools occupy a category designed for haredi Orthodox schools that allows such institutions to receive state funding while departing from the standard Israeli curriculum.<\/p>\n

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Teacher Hanna Rabkin and three new immigrants from Ukraine attend class at Renanim Shuvu school in Nof Hagalil, Israel, on March 23. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Formally, Shuvu schools are classified as haredi by the Israeli education ministry, and they have some things in common with yeshivas attended by Orthodox Jews. Female staff members, if married, wear wigs, as is the convention in haredi Jewish communities. Among the students, the girls wear long skirts, and all the boys are supposed to cover their heads with kippahs. The network also accepts only children whose mothers were Jewish, in keeping with Orthodox Jewish law.<\/p>\n

But the schools are different from traditional yeshivas in significant ways. \u201cThey are not haredi schools because there are boys and girls in the same classrooms and we have students here whose parents don\u2019t keep Shabbat,\u201d Buterman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, we don\u2019t force anything on anyone here,\u201d Neder said. \u201cThere\u2019s a dress code, sure, there are extra lessons on Judaism, but at the end of the day we accept and love all our students the way they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the parents of the children attending Shuvu attended synagogues \u2014 mainly affiliated with the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement \u2014 prior to their immigration to Israel. Others, however, send their children to Shuvu for reasons unrelated to the school\u2019s focus on Orthodox Judaism.<\/p>\n

For a tuition of about $62 a month, parents at Shuvu get a school day two hours longer than state schools\u2019 in classes 30% smaller than at public schools, as well as a warm meal and busing from their homes.<\/p>\n

Many secular parents are convinced to send their kids to Shuvu because of these benefits, coupled with how hospitable the schools are to Russian speakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly we don\u2019t care too much about all the religious stuff, we don\u2019t keep Shabbat, my husband doesn\u2019t wear a kippah,\u201d said one mother, a woman who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in 2010 and asked to be quoted anonymously because of her children\u2019s preferences. \u201cBut this school is just excellent, nothing comes close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shuvu Renanim does have some serious credentials in the scholastic excellence department.<\/p>\n

Last week the Nof Hagalil school won a national math and computers contest for the fourth straight year \u2014\u00a0a record that Neder, who does not speak Russian, attributes to \u201cthe work and study ethics of the homes of most of our students,\u201d she said. Another Shuvu school from Petah Tikva also made it to the top 10 list.<\/p>\n

The Nof Hagalil school\u2019s 16 refugees watched with interest as the other students celebrated this feat at a school event featuring balloons, loud music and medals presented to the winning team by a beaming Neder, who came to the school on her day off for the party.<\/p>\n

The Shuvu school is only part of the attraction of Nof Hagalil for Ukrainian refugees.<\/p>\n

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The sun sets on Nof Hagalil, Israel, on May 20, 2020. (Courtesy of the municipality of Nof Hagalil via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Plaza hotel and city center offer a stunning view of Nazareth, the predominantly Arab neighbor city, and the lush forests of the Galilee, which have been shrouded in mist from unseasonably late rains this month. (Ira Kapustenyenko, a 9-year-old from Kyiv, said the view is \u201cthe best thing that\u2019s happened\u201d to her since leaving Ukraine, where her twin sister Katja said about the early days of the war, \u201cWe were so afraid we thought we\u2019d die from fear.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The newcomers are also welcome free of charge at the city\u2019s only heated pool, the country club, theater halls and other attractions for the whole year following their arrival, per a decision by Nof Hagalil\u2019s mayor, Ronen Plot, himself a Russian speaker who was born in Moldova.<\/p>\n

These perks, which are above and beyond what other cities are offering immigrants from Ukraine or anywhere else, are \u201cabout Zionism,\u201d said a city spokesperson, Orna Yosef Buhbut. She added, \u201dThis is a Jewish city. We will not ignore the plight of Jewish people in order to balance the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s extreme hospitality has become a badge of pride for its residents. They have donated many tons of clothes and toys for the refugees, who pick them up at a makeshift handout point set up by the municipality in an underground parking lot.<\/p>\n

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The mayor Nof Hagalil, Ronen Plot, speaks at a center gathering objects donated to welcome refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, on March 6, 2022. (Jalaa Marey\/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cLet the record show please that when the crucial hour came for our brethren, it was Nof Hagalil, not the cash-padded high-tech crowd of Herzliya, that punched above its weight,\u201d said resident and falafel stand owner Sammy Buari, whose parents came from Libya.<\/p>\n

But the effort is taxing for the city, whose residents earn 20% less, on average, than the average Israeli. The absorption of about 15% of the Jewish refugees who have come so far to Israel is putting a dent in Nof Hagalil\u2019s budget, Buhbut said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir circumstances are not like the olim who came before,\u201d she said, using the Hebrew word for immigrants who came under Israel\u2019s Law of Return for Jews and their relatives. \u201cThey came with the clothes on their backs, with nothing, due to their hasty flight. Some didn\u2019t have enough underwear to change. We have to equip them with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buhbut says the spending makes sense for more than moral reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a sound investment,\u201d she said. \u201cMany of the people who are coming here, albeit under tragic circumstances and with nothing but the clothes on their backs, are academic professionals. They are survivors, they are entrepreneurial. Give them five years and they will integrate into the fabric of the health system, the high-tech scene, the local businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

But whether the families will stay in Nof Hagalil for the long term remains a question. There are precious few attractions to the city beyond the view. A far cry from the bustling urban life of Kyiv and Odessa, Nof Hagalil is a sleepy small city whose\u00a0first train connection to Haifa isn\u2019t planned to materialize for another four years.<\/a>\u00a0Its main claim to fame is that in 2019\u00a0it changed its name from Natzrat Ilit<\/a>, to avoid confusion with the name of the birthplace of Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u201cMostly after school we sleep,\u201d said Jan Yermochin, a 12-year-old Jewish boy from Kyiv who arrived in Nof Hagalil earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Like dozens of the newcomers from Ukraine, Yermochin, who hopes to one day be a banker, attended a Jewish school there \u2014 the Chabad-affiliated Simcha elementary in his case. Others went to public schools. Some grew up with some knowledge of Judaism, but others come from mixed marriages where faith never even came up. Very few speak Hebrew.<\/p>\n

Lena Maidanova, the 33-year-old mother of two girls, one of whom is enrolled in Shuvu, thinks she will stay with them and her husband when he\u2019s allowed to leave Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place looks nice, rent isn\u2019t too high,\u201d she said of Nof Hagalil. \u201cUltimately Israel is less comfortable than Ukraine for us parents, but for the children, I think growing up in Israel is more advantageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others who have landed in Nof Hagalil say they aren\u2019t so sure. Katja and Ira Kapustenyenko said they would happily return to Kyiv, where they were being raised by their grandmother before the war, if they could.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be happy here. I won\u2019t have friends here. I want to go back,\u201d Katja said.<\/p>\n

For many of Nof Hagalil\u2019s newest arrivals, the question of where they will ultimately live feels hard to consider right now, with the war still raging back in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea what happens next,\u201d Tetiana Denysenko said. \u201cWith my husband, with Ukraine, with our home there. Our whole lives were turned upside down. For now the only horizon we\u2019re seeing is the reunion of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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