Israeli schools will hold first-ever memorial ceremonies for a 1956 massacre of Arabs. Education Minister Yuli Tamir this week ordered that schools hold special coexistence study sessions Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the killing of 47 residents of the Israeli Arab village of Kafr Kassem by border policemen.
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