education in Israel

An child is vaccinated at a Children's Medical Center in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, September 10, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/ File)

November 18, 2018, 7:17 pm

Ministers advance bill to ban the unvaccinated from schools

Where there is concern of outbreak, legislation would prohibit entry of any person — whether child, parent, teacher — who has not been immunized

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Illustrative: First grade students sit in a classroom on their first day of school (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

September 12, 2018, 11:45 am

OECD report shows Israeli education gaps, but also greater investment in schools

Data highlights growth in funds for institutions at all levels, though spending per student remains comparatively low, and classes are crowded

By TOI staff

Chimpanzee family. (iStock by Getty Images/ apple2499)

August 30, 2018, 8:03 am

Israeli schools largely avoid teaching evolution — report

Charles Darwin’s theory of common descent of life is marginalized and instead students are taught about species’ adaptation and genetic modification

By TOI staff

August 14, 2018, 10:21 am

Rochelle Furstenberg

Educational TV takes its final breath — what a pity

Israel’s oldest broadcast company shaped generations of kids with intelligent, sensitive programming. It was axed for no good reason

Students protest during a talk by the Breaking The Silence NGO at the Hebrew University, December 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

July 3, 2018, 2:58 pm

Bill to bar left-wing groups from schools cleared for final readings

Knesset education committee votes to advance law; Education minister: ‘Whoever goes around the world attacking IDF soldiers, loses right to enter schools’

By Sue Surkes

March 5, 2018, 3:28 pm

Judith Colp Rubin

Why Israelis can’t write

If we’re the people of the book, why aren’t resources being allocated toward improving writing?

Illustrative image of a boy, sitting in a book store, reading (tatyana_tomsickova/ IStock by Getty Images)

December 5, 2017, 5:31 pm

Reading skills falling in Israel, US, Canada, France — study

10 countries see lower levels of reading comprehension among 9-10-year-olds; girls outperform boys in 48 countries

By AFP

Students learning in an Israeli Hand in Hand school, where the curriculum is both in Hebrew and Arabic. (Courtesy: Debbie Hill)

August 31, 2017, 2:57 pm

Some education gaps between Jews and Arabs nearly closed, report says

By taking socioeconomic background of students into account, scholar says, differences ‘much smaller’ than previously portrayed

By Dov Lieber

Illustrative photo of high school students. (Maya Levin/Flash90)

August 25, 2017, 5:10 pm

Parents committee calls for boycott of extra school payments

Forum of Regional Parents Committees calls for withholding fees for extracurricular activities in protest of prices not being lowered

By TOI staff

Naftali Bennett speaking at a business conference in Jerusalem, June 19 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

June 19, 2017, 1:56 pm

Education minister backpedals on academic ethics code

Bennett says new academic ethics code banning politics from lectures is only a basis for dialogue toward consensus

By Shoshanna Solomon

View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 28, 2017, 4:28 pm

Derelict economy could sink ‘Titanic’ Israel, experts warn

New research paints worrying picture of decades of neglected national priorities leaving the country without the resources to face existential threats

By Raoul Wootliff

March 1, 2017, 11:21 am

Asaf Shimoni

Israel’s high tech sector will enter warp speed once it bridges the generation gap

Innovative companies need not fear employees who are older simply because they are less malleable or likely to be more experienced than their ‘bosses’

Ultra-Orthodox school girls (illustrative photo; credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

February 27, 2017, 5:27 pm

Ministers move to end anti-Sephardi discrimination in ultra-Orthodox schools

New regulations aim to stop Ashkenazi institutions from rejecting girls on ethnic grounds

By Marissa Newman

Cleaners at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon attend ERETZ Hebrew class, January 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

February 10, 2017, 4:17 am

No Hebrew, no problem: Nonprofit teaches illiterate workers while on the job

Led by idealistic professor, college student volunteers instruct hospital and university cleaners in basic Hebrew, English and math

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Arava Institute students on an alternative energy tour. (Courtesy)

January 23, 2017, 5:52 am

In the barren south, Israelis and Arabs work to green the Middle East

At Arava Valley environmental program, seeds of cooperation take root among Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians

By Luke Tress