Israel’s education minister urged the nation’s teachers to discuss in their classrooms the lessons of the Kfar Kassem massacre, when Israeli soldiers shot dead 47 Israeli Arabs — including 15 women and 11 children — on October 29, 1956. “We do not seek to hide and obscure. We do not seek to cover up the shame, but to deal with it openly and honestly,” said Yossi Sarid, the leader of the secular Meretz Party. When the incident took place 43 years ago, the victims had been returning from their day’s work in the field and were unaware a curfew had been imposed.
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