"You can see nowadays parents bring their children. Now it is really the parents that recommend their children to study Chinese," said Shram.
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem was the first to teach Chinese in the Middle East in 1958. Chinese culture and language has fascinated many since then.
The increase in the number of people choosing to study the Chinese language probably has to do with the improvement of ties between Israel and China in recent years.
There is growing cooperation between the two, especially in the business sector. According to the Israeli foreign ministry, trade between the countries has exceeded 11 billion U.S. dollars, making China Israel's third largest trade partner.
"It is part of the process of the cultures and peoples coming closer together, it helps lessen alienation," said Lihi Yariv-Laor, chair of Confucius Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"I think it is the most useful language at the moment and this is what is on the rise now and spreading," said Itai Schimmel, a student, explaining the main reason why he chose the language as part of his curriculum.
"I don't see any other language so useful, as more than a billion people speak it," said Maya Daniel, one of Schimmel's classmates.
As part of a growing understanding in China, three delegations from the country visited the Jerusalem school alone in the past year according to Shram.
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