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Politics : View from the Center and Left Middle East Annex

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East Jerusalem Is Changing Profoundly, Led by Palestinian Women

East Jerusalem sees shrinking families, rising middle class, and more students in Israeli universities - trends now threatened by war and government policies

When Sireen Nijem graduated in 2010 from her neighborhood private school, she didn't plan to study at an Israeli university. "I planned to register for a degree at Birzeit University [in the West Bank], but I traveled there, and it took three to four hours with all the checkpoints," the East Jerusalem resident says. "I decided that it's not what I want to do for four years."

A trip to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from her neighborhood of Beit Hanina changed her trajectory. "It's 15 minutes from my home, a very different place from what I knew, but I saw the huge library – and I love to read," she says. "At the time, people thought that my dad was crazy for sending me to study there."

What was unusual 15 years ago is now routine. About half of East....

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