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Interview Questions for Adina Shapiro

Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in this kind of work.

How did you end up teaching at Hope Flowers School?

What did you think?

And why couldn't he come to meet you in Jerusalem?

It was one of the first schools to teach Hebrew in the West Bank?

Why do you say you were crazy?

What do you try to convey and how do you try to present yourself?

How do you think you came to become aware of that view?

Please tell me about the different things you have been involved in after Hope Flowers and go into more detail about what you have been doing recently.

What does MECA do concretely?

Are there in-person meetings?

What's the hardest thing you have had to face?

Are you speaking from personal experience in all this?

Are there particular times when you felt like you did not want to continue to do it?

What would your ups and downs depend on? Would it depend on what was going on a national level?

Does this involvement come as a surprise for you? Looking back on your life are you surprised to find yourself at this point?

What do you think your goals are right now?

Where do the teachers come from?

And how do they get involved?

Can you tell me a little bit more about the need for this work on both sides?

To what extent is the question of loyalty that you talked about in contradiction to what your goals are for the teachers?

What about the existing curricula?

Do you have any specifics? Any examples of changes that you'd like to see?

How come you have math teachers in MECA? What can they bring into the classrooms?

You mentioned at the beginning that you went back to speak with the principal of your school and that in retrospectively analyzing your own education it was a matter of omission rather than teaching to hate.

How does your community feel about your work?

What do you mean?

How do you describe your community?

Could you share some of those?

Can you talk about mistakes you may have made?

Would you like to give an example?

That's why we do these interviews, to be able to show others the processes that people are going through.

I'd like to talk a bit about leadership, and how you see civic, or civilian's use leadership in a time like this.

What do you think it will take for that to happen?

What's your vision?