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Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 15, 2026, 12:56 am
Knesset finance panel approves nearly NIS 100m in additional funds for Haredi schools
Yesh Atid accuses ‘draft dodgers and the corrupt’ of prioritizing schools that don’t teach core curriculum, while ultra-Orthodox MK claims the community has the best schools
By Sam Sokol
Supreme Court Justice Yael Willner at a court hearing on who will have authority over the Sde Teiman leak probe, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 11, 2025.(Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)
December 31, 2025, 9:30 pm
High Court halts transfer of NIS 1 billion to Haredi schools as it reviews case
Petitioners accuse government of breaking law by funding institutions allegedly not teaching core subjects; ultra-Orthodox leaders rail against ‘antisemitic’ court
By Jeremy Sharon, Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox children dressed up in costumes at their cheder in Jerusalem, several days before the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 30, 2025, 11:06 pm
Lapid petitions High Court to halt billion-shekel transfer to ultra-Orthodox schools
Court gives government until Wednesday morning to respond; ‘We will not allow Israel’s ultra-Orthodox children to be turned into second-class citizens,’ says UTJ chairman Goldknopf
By Sam Sokol
The Knesset Finance Committee meeting on July 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
August 12, 2025, 11:23 pm
Knesset finance committee approves additional NIS 177m for private Haredi schools
Total funds transferred to Haredi sector exceed NIS 300m, including funds earmarked in budget, but also millions in public money for Haredi schools ‘exempt’ from oversight
By Ariela Karmel
Ultra-Orthodox kids dressed up in costumes at their school, in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, on March 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 3, 2025, 1:22 pm
State turns blind eye as Haredi schools sidestep core curriculum, study reveals
Even when the Education Ministry intervened to withdraw funding from noncompliant schools, the cuts were minimal, Israel Democracy Institute report finds
By Rossella Tercatin
UTJ MK Moshe Gafni (left), chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, presides over a committee meeting on education funding on December 31, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman)
January 2, 2025, 11:45 pm
Opposition furious at 11th-hour transfer of hundreds of millions to Haredi education
‘We didn’t have time to read, understand, study the material,’ complains MK Beliak, day after Finance Committee pushed through extra budgets. Opposition weighs High Court petition
By Sam Sokol
The entrance to the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 4, 2024, 9:35 am
Study finds narrowing gap in state spending on Jewish and Arab high school students
Researchers also note differences in expenditures among Jewish students, with those in the state religious track receiving more per capita than peers in secular state institutions
By Gavriel Fiske
Yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 18, 2024, 1:22 am
Wartime budget slashes education funds, but not for the ultra-Orthodox, complain MKs
Amended 2024 budget leaves intact NIS 2 billion of special funds promised by government during coalition talks, though Haredi lawmakers claim they are actually losing the most
By Sam Sokol
Opposition leader and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University, May 23, 2023. (Gilad Kavalerchik)
May 23, 2023, 2:14 pm
Lapid accuses government of giving Haredim ‘our tax money to ensure they won’t work’
Opposition leader denounces Netanyahu-led coalition for failing to tackle cost of living, says budget tells ultra-Orthodox: ‘The suckers’ children will pay for your children’
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), alongside Education Minister Yoav Kisch (center) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a press conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
April 30, 2023, 11:57 pm
Government announces plans to ease costs for parents of kids aged 0-3
Employed parents to receive NIS 940 for each child in range, extra NIS 1,700 for those at state-subsidized daycares; NIS 2 billion committed to building state-funded centers
By ToI Staff
A father photographs his son against a Russian missile in Old Kyiv, July 21, 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
July 25, 2022, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing July 25: Israel’s government still at work; touring tanks in Ukraine
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on what a dissolved government does while awaiting elections; Lazar Berman, on location in Ukraine, puts 400 years of Russian relations in context
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students and teacher at Hashalom School in Mevaseret Zion, near Jerusalem, May 17, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 28, 2020, 9:56 am
50,000 Israeli kids lack basic school supplies, 20% without computers, internet
As school year set to start with unprecedented reliance on remote learning amid pandemic, charity report says tens of thousands of children don’t have all the equipment they need
By ToI Staff
Israeli students wear protective face masks as they return to school for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus, on May 3, 2020, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 27, 2020, 8:24 am
Coalition flubs Knesset vote on pandemic funding for schools
Bill fails to muster necessary majority as lawmakers go on weeklong summer vacation, meaning money for education system will be delayed until after start of school year
By ToI Staff
Parents protest in Tel Aviv against the abuse of children and infants in kindergartens in Israel, July 7, 2019. The sign reads "What happens when the door closes?" (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
July 9, 2019, 12:29 am
Education Ministry said caught off guard by preschool oversight announcement
Officials reportedly heard of Netanyahu’s planned move through media reports; one expert estimates cost at NIS 4.5 billion a year
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin visits an elementary school in Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, on the first day of the academic year on September 1, 2016. (Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO)
September 16, 2016, 3:39 am
Israeli women better educated than men – but earn less
OECD report shows Israel spends more on education overall, but large student population means it spends less per pupil
By ToI Staff
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