Strangers No More celebrates Oscar win at Israel's melting pot school

Oscar-winning documentary

hands around their statuettes in Tel Aviv school, although many students facing deportation

Not much to Bialik Rogozin School

usual in Tel Aviv - for students who have taken easily when the end of the period took place with two Oscar statuettes that were given about

This year's Academy Award for Best Documentary was awarded to foreigners who tells the story of school students, 70% are immigrants, most of the countries most dangerous world.

Monday, directors of the film, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, brought their Oscars to share with students and allow them to enjoy a bit of reflected glory.

With 832 students from 48 countries, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, the children can not share much in common, but one thing was certain -. Everyone wanted to get their hands on the Oscar

"It's a tribute to the miracle that is Bialik Rogozin. When we arrived here, we find love and we're still in love with this school and all those who have found a home here, "Goodman said that the school celebrated with readings and prices, while some girls nervously performed dance routines, interrupted by the occasional faux pas and technical failure.

"If we received an Oscar, because these children have opened their hearts to us. We only catch up," said co-director Simon Goodman.

Many of those deported to the students and the government is due to its decision on its future.

• "may be postponed, but still leaves children who live in fear," says Simon.
• In recent years, Israel has received 35 000 asylum seekers and refugees in Africa. It also has tens of thousands of foreign workers who have overstayed their visas, some children born in Israel.
• non-Jewish migration has created confusion in Israel. The Interior Ministry, headed by a minister of the ultra-Orthodox Shas, is willing to reduce the number, but others are proud that Israel has become a refuge.

film documents a year in the life of the school, focuses on three students: Aikpehae Esther, who fled South Africa after his mother was killed, Johannes Mulugeta the Eritrea, which was not involved in school, Mohammed Adam, who led Israel from Sudan's Darfur after seeing his grandmother and his father murdered in front of him. All three have a temporary residence permit.

The school is about to receive the National Award for Education by Peres Israeli President Shimon, but such a director, Karen said it was not easy to run a school where students were concerned about their future.

"We have an agreement with the class. Follow the routine and the target for the academic success that gives them the confidence at a time rootless The other side is that we are very active in agitation on behalf of students. I can talk to important people of all time and created an action committee and guests staying in the world, "he said.
Goodman believes that the school is an example for others around the world who are struggling to provide a good education in multicultural contexts.

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