Israeli college schedule includes 'Nakba day' and 'Land day'

Colleges and universities in Israel opened their fall semster ten days ago. At the Tel Hai Academic College near Israel's border with Lebanon, students were surprised to discover that their academic calendar included two holidays that had never been part of the academic calendar: 'Nakba day,' which is observed on May 14 each year to commemorate the 'nakba' (catastrophe) that befell the Arabs with