Education Ministry confirms teachers to have vacation day on Friday as part of deal to end strike

11 May 2025, 9:42 am

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View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a strike, on May 4, 2025. Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

The Education Ministry confirms that schools and kindergartens will be closed on Friday as part of an agreement reached between the union and Finance Ministry over proposed salary cuts that led to a week of strike action that shuttered hundreds of educational institutions.

Under the new plan, teachers’ monthly wages will be cut by 0.95 percent instead of the originally planned 3.3%.

Also, two additional vacation days will be added for teachers, on the Lag B’Omer festival this year and next year. This year, the festival falls on Friday.