It is with a feeling of thanksgiving and prayer to Hashem and an uplifted atmosphere of satisfaction and pleasure that some one hundred thousand students, boys and girls respectively of the Chinuch Atzmai schools serving all the sectors and communities of Jewry, will commence their school year this Thursday, per the aspiration of Torah leadership, the founders and progenitors of Chinuch Atzmai. These students will occupy the several hundred schools throughout the cities and settlements of all of Israel.

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