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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

education in Israel

Israeli soldiers on guard while students arrive to their first day of school at Lev Ha'Emek School in Neot Mordechai, northern Israel, on Septmber 1, 2024.(Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
September 16, 2024, 5:09 pm
Israelis feel fractured school system cannot promote a shared identity – poll
IDI survey finds 45% of Jews, 16% of Arabs want schools to focus on ‘national unity’; many Israelis want hostages discussed in schools, but less so on religious and political right
By Gavriel Fiske
Israeli children seen on the first day of school at the Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 10, 2024, 6:48 pm
Israel among highest in education expenditure as measured against GDP — study
Israel has the highest percentage of youth population among developed countries, and despite expenditure, school classes remain larger and students study fewer days
By Gavriel Fiske
Opening the new school year at the Horesh school in Zichron Yaakov, on September 1, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2024, 5:33 pm
As northern evacuees begin school in Zichron Yaakov, some find a silver lining
At the Horesh combined primary and middle school in the northern town, displaced kids absorbed into the general student body are starting their second school year away from home
By Gavriel Fiske
View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023. (Flash90)
August 17, 2024, 12:02 pm
‘School will not start,’ warns head of Teachers Union amid impasse in wage talks
Finance Ministry blames teachers for refusing to reach agreement during ‘complicated time’; union says ministry held negotiations ‘for sake of appearance’ ahead of new school year
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Shapira committee head Amos Shapira, and Tammy Omanski, head of the Education Ministry's special education department, at a press conference in Jerusalem, on May 28, 2024. (Sivan Shachar/courtesy)
May 28, 2024, 5:21 pm
Special ed committee recommends 19 kids per class, 5 days a week for all schools
Experts advise revamping entire educational system to better integrate special needs children, a ‘win-win’ solution for all students
By Gavriel Fiske
Students arrive at a school in central Jerusalem, on April 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 8:06 am
Dilemmas abound as school system works to help students process Oct. 7 and horrors of war
The Israel-Hamas conflict has taken up nearly the entire school year, which finishes at the end of next month, but some educators see an opportunity to ‘reset’ the education system
By Gavriel Fiske
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
Reserve IDF soldiers training at a school in the Golan Heights, on October 19, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
October 25, 2023, 1:42 am
In-person schooling resumes across much of Israel on Wednesday
Tel Aviv to keep schools closed until end of week despite option to resume normal activities, while educational institutions along northern border subject to restrictions
By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff
Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90, via JTA)
October 8, 2023, 9:32 pm
Schools to stay closed, universities delay semester start by week
K-12 classes cancelled for Monday and Tuesday, with a gradual return starting Wednesday, ‘subject to a situational assessment,’ ministry says
By Gavriel Fiske
Tel Aviv High School of the Arts principal Udi Klein. (Facebook)
October 2, 2023, 11:01 pm
Tel Aviv high school principal takes leave after report of relationships with minors
Channel 12 says Udi Klein had romantic ties with student from another school and an interaction on Grindr with a former pupil
By ToI Staff
Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 2, 2023, 11:07 am
Alice Shalvi, trailblazing feminist and educator, dies at 97
The Israel Prize laureate, longtime principal of Jerusalem’s revered Pelech school for girls and founder of Israel Women’s Network, was an agent for change
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli children who will begin 1st grade in the upcoming academic school year pose for a picture in Moshav Yashresh, August 23, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
September 1, 2023, 6:45 am
As school year kicks off, education system said to be down thousands of teachers
Elementary schools missing 3,000 teachers, high schools lacking 20% of their staff, says Teachers’ Association; minister claims figures are lower, but problems still extend further
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at his side, and other coalition ministers and MKs celebrate the passage of the state budget in the Knesset, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2023, 11:13 pm
Netanyahu’s fat man, thin man and the burden of the new state budget
As more funds are funnelled to the ultra-Orthodox community, other budgets for investment in high-tech are reduced; reforms for tackling high cost of living are suffering
By Sharon Wrobel
An illustrative photo of a classroom in Modiin on January 30, 2022. (Flash90)
May 16, 2023, 3:01 pm
‘We’ve gone back 20 years’: Reading proficiency in Israel down markedly after COVID
Fourth-graders suffer one of the worst drops in performance among OECD states in new international assessment of literacy levels
By ToI Staff
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