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Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced that in the coming year, Israeli-Arab students will begin learning to speak Hebrew in kindergarten, and will be required to learn Hebrew until the 12th grade.

Bennett says the move will help narrow the social gap between Arabs and Jews.

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In May, MK Oren Hazan (Likud) proposed that Jewish students be required to learn Arabic, starting in first grade.

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