On Tuesday March 15, 2022, Sapir College was honored to have been paid a visit by MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the United Arab List party. The significance of the visit is associated with the historical development that MK Abbas led in 2021. Following the elections to the Knesset held that year, his party became the first Arab party to join an Israeli governing coalition.

MK Abbas was greeted by Sapir President, Prof Shai Feldman and the Dean of Students, Alon Gayer. The Dean and Amer Azbarga, Director of Arab Student Services, provided the guest with a thorough briefing on the state of Sapir’s more than 840 Arab-Bedouin students. The discussion focused on the educational, cultural and financial challenges that these students face and the many programs and other services provided by Sapir to address these challenges. MK Abbas promised to help address the most immediate and most difficult of these challenges: insufficient means of public transportation between the smaller Arab communities in the Negev and Sapir. During his visit, MK Abbas also met some of Sapir’s Arab-Bedouin students who shared with him their experience at the College.    

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