Ethiopian immigrant students in Israel score much worse on high school matriculation exams than their Israeli-born counterparts. Seventy percent of Ethiopians take the exams and 29.6 percent pass, while 79 percent of all Israeli students take the exams and 52 percent pass, according to numbers released by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
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