About the project
The Salah School originally served elementary school-age girls from the Arab village of Jabel Mukaber. It evolved over the years to become a co-educational school that includes kindergartens, a co-educational elementary school with three special education classes and a junior high school with separate classes for boys and girls. As of 2007, it had approximately 1,800 students. The school is housed on a campus built in 1998 that includes the elementary and junior high school, a separate kindergarten building, a sport court, a playground and a library that is open to the public during afterschool hours. The Jerusalem Foundation provided educational toys for the school’s kindergarten in 1995, and a science laboratory in 1996. The lab, which includes equipment for experiments, television, video, slide projector and screen, human body models and scientific literature, was one of seven science labs equipped in Arab schools (five of them all-girls schools) by the Foundation in 1996-97. It is used by all grades, including the kindergartens, and, according to the vice principal, is the most active room of the school. The school has participated in various coexistence programs, including the Image of Abraham Project at the Bible Lands Museum.
