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Monday, September 1, 2025
2.5 million children head back to school with the start of the academic year
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Some 2.5 million children are heading back to school and kindergarten on the first day of the academic year.
There are approximately 180,600 students entering first grade this year, and 149,000 entering twelfth grade.
The Education Ministry claims that the system is suffering a shortage of 488 teachers, however the Ynet news site questions whether that could be possible given that it found two weeks ago that there were 4,254 educators lacking.
For the first time in Israel’s history, this year thousands more children will begin first grade in religious Jewish schools than in secular ones, according to data the Education Ministry provided to The Times of Israel. Experts say the change could be a harbinger of a large-scale shift in Israeli society.
The Times of Israel Community.