Hebrew Lesson
The name for kindergarten is "Gan Chova" meaning Required Kindergarten. The year before that is called "Trom Chova." I always thought it came from the word "LTrom" which means To donate because parents are required to pay for it, while you don’t need to pay for Gan Chova.
Thanks to the fact that I do have a few Israeli (ie Native Hebrew Speaking) friends, I found out it comes from the word "Terem" which means Pre (as in Pre-Kindergarten).
You learn something new everyday.
And, while I was checking to see if Terem and Trom are spelled the same way (they aren’t–one has a Tet and the other a Taf), I discovered that on the Jerusalem municipality web page they use Chova (required) and Kedem Chova (pre-required) instead of Chova and Trom Chova.
The best part of this whole discovery, was finding out that my husband had the exact same understanding of it as I did.
