The Palestinians continue to refer to the school receiving USAID money as the Dalal Mughrabi School, named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who murdered 36 Israelis and the American photographer Gail Ruben in the 1978 bus hijacking. Last week the PA Ministry of Education promised that the school would be renamed in order to receive the US funds which had been frozen. (See PMW August 11 Bulletin: PA Forced by US to Remove Terrorist’s Name from School, at
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp? id=129764

The following appeared a week after the school was “renamed”.

"The Al-Shuyukh Sisterhood Celebrated the Conclusion of its Summer Camp"

"The Al-Shuyukh Sisterhood … celebrated the completion of its first summer camp, ‘Tomorrow’s Generation’, in the Dalal Mughrabi School in Al-Shuyukh. The camp was in session for 3 weeks, attended by 300 children… The ceremony included speeches by Abbas Zaki, a member of the PA Legislative Council, and by Muhammad Amran Al-Qawasmi, Director of Education and Culture in the Hebron District…"[PA Official Daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, August 16, 2002]