Learning about voting

While many Israelis are following the 58th quadrennial US presidential election, one Israeli high school has given its students an opportunity to gain a more indepth perspective into this year’s campaign and election process.

More than 100 ninth-grade students in Modi’in took part in an English class project about the American election recently. At the city’s Ironi Heh High School, which is a Project-Based Learning school, English teachers Ariel Blacher and Chaim Kleg, both American immigrants who are voting in the November 8 election, created a US election project that incorporated US history, civics and basic knowledge about the election process for their Israeli students.