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High school competitors at the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education's annual robotics competition, in New York City, April 29, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 1, 2026, 2:17 am
214 robots take the field at US national competition for Jewish schools
Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education hosts annual tournament in New York, highlighting the growing importance and challenges for STEM programs in Jewish education
By Luke Tress
Tel Aviv-based Symbolab is a maker of artificial intelligence-based education technology that is used by over one million users globally to study math (YouTube screenshot)
October 27, 2020, 2:04 pm
US firm Course Hero buys Tel Aviv-based online math teacher Symbolab
Founded by mathematicians and computer scientists in 2011, Symbolab helps students understand and practice math; startup will retain brand, team
By Shoshanna Solomon
Brett Lockspeiser, a co-founder of Sefaria, hopes to apply the database's approach highlighting the interconnections between texts to other bodies of knowledge. (Screenshots from Sefaria/ via JTA)
July 26, 2020, 3:56 am
After digitizing the Talmud, Sefaria seeks to do the same to democracy
Revolutionary database of digitally interconnected Torah writings launches pilot program bringing Jewish methods to constitutional study
By Shira Hanau
Illustrative image of students in a lecture hall (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)
October 16, 2018, 4:42 pm
US-Israeli startup wins prize for AI software that helps teachers grade tests
Sense Education’s technology, which makes it easier to give students personalized feedback, is honored at EdTech summit in Spain
By Federico Maccioni
Wizcom's electronic pen aims to help children with dyslexia and reading disorders (Courtesy)
January 25, 2018, 2:58 pm
Israel’s Wizcomtech designs pen to make reading easier for kids with dyslexia
New device aims to help the 14% of school-age children who have trouble reading, writing and understanding the meaning of words
By Urvashi Verma
Members of the first graduating class of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (Courtesy)
May 20, 2016, 2:07 pm
First class of Technion-Cornell program set to graduate
Set up in 2013, the NY campus expects to produce the next generation of tech leaders, generate billions for city
By ToI Staff
A teacher using a touchscreen 'smart board' in a Jerusalem classroom. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
January 31, 2016, 8:02 pm
Edtech start-ups get a boost from new funding
Informal education is a huge growth area — and Edvantage wants to help Israeli firms get in on the act
By David Shamah
(From left to right): Former IDF chief of staff and chairman of the Rashi Fund, Gabi Ashkenazi; Beersheba Mayor Ruby Danilovich; Lockheed-Martin CEO Marilyn Hewson; and Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the opening of the Beersheba tech kindergarten, October 14, 2015. (Sasson Tiram)
October 30, 2015, 12:46 pm
Israel opens first-ever high-tech kindergarten
Robotics, physics, astronomy, and math are just some of the skills 5-year-olds will pick up at new Beersheba facility
By David Shamah
Neil Lazarus
May 21, 2015, 8:58 am
Neil Lazarus
Jewish education comes of age
With several new programs for overseas students, Hebrew University has become a center for training teachers of Jewish curricula
Tonara in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)
April 14, 2015, 7:20 pm
China’s Baidu makes third investment in Israel
Tonara, maker of apps to help students learn to play music, has an ‘extraordinary’ future, its new partner believes
By David Shamah
Illustrative. A college graduation ceremony. (CC BY John Walker/Flickr)
February 8, 2015, 8:00 pm
Israeli app tips off college kids about bad courses
Evaluating professors in real time? There’s an app for that
By David Shamah
Clifton Flack
February 6, 2015, 10:07 am
Clifton Flack
Steve Jobs fathered my children
Kids born in the iPhone era may never know what living in a world that was not connected 24/7 was like
Taxis lined up outside the Calcutta main train station in India (Deborah Sinai/Flash90)
From the WebDecember 15, 2014, 4:03 pm
Israel and India forge deeper business ties via education
India Education Diary: Israel and India are cooperating on defense – and the next stage, officials in both countries say, is academic
Nahum Kovalski
November 3, 2014, 4:22 pm
Nahum Kovalski
Forever young
Is the current crop of new doctors as competent as their elders – or are they more prepared for future challenges?
A first grader raises his hand in a classroom in Nitzan, southern Israel. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)
August 24, 2014, 11:55 am
Apple co-founder flies into Israel as rockets fly by
Steve Wozniak feels so strongly about technology in education that he ‘risks’ first trip to Israel to talk about it
By David Shamah
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