When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel-schools-reopen.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

As the United States and other countries anxiously consider how to reopen schools, Israel, one of the first countries to do so, illustrates the dangers of moving too precipitously.

Confident it had beaten the coronavirus and desperate to reboot a devastated economy, the Israeli government invited the entire student body back in late May.

Within days, infections were reported at a Jerusalem high school, which quickly mushroomed into the largest outbreak in a single school in Israel, possibly the world.

The virus rippled out to the students’ homes and then to other schools and neighborhoods, ultimately infecting hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.