MK Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid) has approached Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana regarding the closure of an elementary school in Kiryat Shmona, as reported by ynet, requesting an urgent discussion in the Knesset Education Committee to address the issues exposed in the article. In his appeal, MK Cohen stated, "This crisis is not just educational, but social, demographic and national. We cannot allow a situation where a frontier town, which has paid a heavy price in the recent war, finds itself abandoned by education systems and services."