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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

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The security barrier that has cut Kafr Aqab off from the rest of Jerusalem on February 20, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2023, 1:46 pm
East Jerusalem school teaching Israeli curriculum is set on fire
As number of Palestinian students prepping for Israeli matriculation exam rises, opposition grows to the perceived loss of national identity in the city’s schools
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Incoming minister of Education Yoav Kisch (right) at replacement ceremony for outgoing minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (not seen), at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)
January 5, 2023, 7:57 pm
New education minister scraps predecessor’s matriculation reforms
A week after taking office, Yoav Kisch cans move to cancel exams in history, literature, civics, and Bible and replace them with class projects, multidisciplinary work
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: Young Bedouin students study together at the library of their high school in the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, February 16, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
September 13, 2022, 3:05 pm
Druze lead Israel in high school matriculation; Haredi, Bedouin schools lag behind
Data released a day after Netanyahu agrees to full funding for ultra-Orthodox schools that don’t teach core curriculum, if he regains premiership
By Tobias Siegal
Israeli kids wear school bags ahead of the first day of school outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2022, ahead of the opening of the secular state education system's academic year. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 1, 2022, 6:00 am
After weeks of uncertainty, 1st day of school begins for 2.5 million Israeli pupils
Last-minute agreements with teachers’ unions avert large-scale strikes; 2,496,000 kids, 218,000 education workers head to class Thursday
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli students at a high school in the southern city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)
September 1, 2022, 12:42 am
2.5 million kids to go back to school Thursday after deal reached with high schools
Last-minute agreement between Treasury and Secondary School Teachers’ Association will shorten school week to 5 days, revamp humanities exams
By ToI Staff
A student in Hartman secondary school in Jerusalem takes a matriculation exam in mathematics in 2010 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
February 8, 2022, 11:01 am
Major education reform will slash number of high school matriculation exams
Students will be required to pass 4-5 exams instead of 12-14; reform expected to come into effect next year
By Tobias Siegal
Israeli students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks, as they return to school on May 3, 2020. (Gershon Elinon/Flash90)
March 15, 2021, 9:27 pm
Comptroller report says education system ‘not meeting 21st-century standards’
Matanyahu Englman warns matriculation exams focusing on knowledge rather than modern skills, rolling of tech upgrade lacking
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A closed school in the northern Israeli town of Safed on March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 1, 2020, 5:25 pm
Matriculation exams reduced as high schools shut indefinitely over virus
Education minister says students will be allowed to graduate despite disruption caused by coronavirus pandemic
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A member of the 'hilltop youth' rides a donkey at an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank. (Credit: Zman Emet, Kan 11)
February 14, 2020, 1:50 pm
Program for rehabilitating ‘hilltop youth’ sees them as dropouts, not criminals
Academy for at-risk Israeli teens addresses ‘price tag’ attackers through educational lens, meeting boys where they live, even if it’s in the West Bank’s most extremist outposts
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a visit to Aleh Negev, a rehabilitation village for disabled children and adults near Ofakim in southern Israel, on July 28, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
April 30, 2019, 1:58 pm
Why the left keeps failing in the pro-Likud periphery, home to 25% of Israelis
Nearly 1 in 4 Israelis live in development towns and southern cities. The left simply doesn’t speak their language, say experts and locals — one reason it keeps losing elections
By Sue Surkes
Ran Erez, then chairman of the Secondary-School Teachers' Association, attends at a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 4, 2017, 10:50 pm
Teachers’ union declares no more exams until dispute resolved
Action may affect end of year tests, as teachers up the ante in demands for higher wages; strike scheduled for northern Israel Tuesday
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva on August 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 9, 2017, 3:47 pm
Terrorists, bad tests and protests (and clowns)
Papers go domestic with front page stories ranging from a murder motivated by terror to cheating in school (and of course Iran, and the red-nosed menace)
By Joshua Davidovich
Hartman High School students take their matriculation exams in mathematics (: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 9, 2017, 1:35 pm
In tech, girls study more than boys but are less confident – survey
Rashi Foundation study looks at 389 Israeli students in grades 11-12 who’ll be tested in math, computers this month
By Shoshanna Solomon
Students in Kiryat Sharet high school in Holon take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 21, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 29, 2016, 9:33 pm
For second straight year, Druze town has top matriculation rate
Beit Jann comes first in key high school exam pass rates; ultra-Orthodox and poorer Arab communities record lowest test averages
By Tamar Pileggi
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, in Cannes in 2011. (Shutterstock)
February 2, 2016, 1:06 am
Bar Refaeli on the curriculum for national civics final
In matriculation test, high schoolers asked about flight ban issued over supermodel’s wedding in September
By Daniel Douek
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