Citing antisemitism abroad, Jewish students enrol in Israel

Daniel Zagury (18) was a new undergraduate student at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He was beginning what was to have been a four-year course of study for a bachelor degree. But for Zagury, who grew up mostly in London in an Israeli family, it became apparent that the tensions surrounding the war would be too difficult to handle in Spain. This week he began a new course of study in Israel instead, writes Gavriel Fiske for The Times of Israel.

He is one of a number of students at the Raphael Recanati International School who have made similar decisions following the Hamas atrocities of 7 October. The Times of Israel visited the tree-lined Herzliya campus on 19 November, the first day of school, and met with Zagury and other students in a busy cafeteria right before their first class.

In Madrid, “when the war started, immediately tensions shot up. I was super uncomfortable,” said Zagury. “People were demonstrating, coming in groups, a lot of Jews received death threats, and there was harassment. After the first day, before Israel even responded, there were already people out there with keffiyehs and flags … I was surrounded by people who hated me in Madrid, so why should I stay there?” he said.
Full report on The Times of Israel site