Children around the world are starting a new school year, some of them in the shadow of war.

More than 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country's northern border because of the

risk of rockets from Lebanese Hezbollah, and residents of Kiryat Shimona

now live in hundreds of towns across Israel. That includes Tel Aviv where

young students this week went back to school

even if they can't go back home.

Nick Schifrin has the story with producer Carl Bostick.

It is a rite of passage with an armed escort. Students arriving on the first day of

school after summer vacation, reuniting with old friends, and making new ones with new teachers and nine-year-old twins,

Adele and Emma Azulae and their mother, Leana.

But this is not their school, and this city is not their home.

They're the displaced driven from their houses by war.

Most of my students, their house was ruined.

Olfer Zofrani is the superintendent of a school system whose teachers and students have been

displaced across the country for 11 months.

He says the instructors he briefed ahead of their first

classes provide students an antidote to war.

I think the teachers in Israel in general are holding the torch of the hope. They are giving them schedule, something

to wake up in the morning, something to do, a goal. All other things are in chaos.

Their homes were in Kiryach Shmona, hit by Lebanese Hezbollah rockets just yesterday and on 200 separate

occasions since Hezbollah opened fire on northern Israel the day after October the 7th.

It's the largest town in Northern Israel

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