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Palestinian children sit in their classroom on the first day of the new academic year at a UN-run school in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, September 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for ‘hateful’ speech
By SAM MEDNICK
Plan by Gaza Children Village opposed by educators in Gaza, with some fearing surveillance could be intercepted by Israel, while others object to efforts to censor teachers
Displaced children from the Gaza Strip, stand in line as they attend a Palestinian school in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, near the border with the Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2026. (Amr AHMED/AFP)
October 4, 2026, 8:12 am
In Egypt’s Sinai, a Gazan refugee builds a school for children displaced by war
El-Arish school provides free education to nearly 400 Palestinian students, aiming to offer a Palestinian curriculum and a sense of normalcy away from home
By AFP
Yashar candidate Devora Sharifian Bachar on August 3, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
September 27, 2026, 8:01 am
Yashar’s Iran-born spy-turned-teacher eyes education overhaul with Knesset bid
Devora Sharifian Bachar rebelled against her family to join an elite ops team, and then brought her security ‘intuigence’ — intuition and intelligence — to classrooms in Eilat. Now she’s on a mission to revamp schools nationwide
By Tal Schneider
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 25, 2026, 6:13 pm
Israeli study finds 68% of young kids innately think like scientists
Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Patras, Greece, say that young children can be taught scientific reasoning if asked ‘how’ things work, not ‘why’
By Diana Bletter
The densely built city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, July 15, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 7, 2026, 6:49 pm
Kids at non-Haredi Bnei Brak school find gate welded shut; parents decry ‘unending’ harassment
Police called to break gate open; families at co-ed religious Zionist school, located adjacent to a Haredi educational institution, say incident is latest in pattern of neglect and disruption by city
By ToI Staff
After a three-year closure due to war, Israel's northernmost community of Metula celebrates a first day of school, September 1, 2026. (courtesy)
September 1, 2026, 4:52 pm
‘That’s victory’: In battle-scarred Metula, a reopened school offers hope on the border
School is again in session in Israel’s northernmost community, after 65% of its residents came back to live amid telltale signs of war. It was a celebration three years in the making
By Diana Bletter
Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
August 15, 2026, 1:40 pm
Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life
Officials tout stability and end to war while women remain barred from universities and girls over 12 are shut out of school; UN warns of deepening rights crisis
By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer
Tel Aviv University Prof. Dan Ben David joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on this week's What Matters Now podcast. (Courtesy/Flash90)
August 5, 2026, 7:02 pm
Dan Ben-David: Israel is on the brink of a spiral of collapse
The prominent economist explains how a complete overhaul of the education system is needed to stave off an almost inevitable economic downfall
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Certified elementary school librarian Sarah Pepin speaks at a State Board of Education meeting in Austin on June 22, 2026. (Aiden Gonzalez/The Texas Tribune via JTA)
June 27, 2026, 9:50 am
Texas creates required reading list that includes Anne Frank and the Bible
State board of education votes 9-5 for the list, over objections from Jewish leaders concerned about injecting Christian content into lessons for the state’s 5.5 million public school students
By Grace Gilson and Andrew Lapin
Education Minister Yoav Kisch (left of center) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right of center) sit with students at the Dekel Vilnai Middle School in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank, to launch an AI-powered English language program on June 11, 2026. (Haim Zach / GPO)
June 21, 2026, 10:40 am
With massive teacher shortages, Israel plans on teaching English to middle schoolers through AI
PM and education minister announce national program to move English lessons on screens. Since 40% of 19,000 English teachers don’t have training, could AI do much worse?
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 17, 2026, 4:08 am
Report: Just 3% of Israeli ninth graders met science requirements in latest tests
Education minister claims results were leaked for ‘political’ reasons, claiming science scores were excluded from exam data published last month due to series of flaws
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Israeli high school students taking an exam, in Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 1, 2026, 12:33 am
Only 22% of Israeli 9th graders met English requirements in latest tests, sparking alarm
Only 9% of 9th-graders at Arabic-speaking schools met English standards, compared to 27% in Hebrew-speaking system; English taught less overall, with schools facing teacher shortage
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Daniel Kaiman (Courtesy via JTA)
April 9, 2026, 1:10 am
Jewish families and a rabbi ask to join lawsuit to block Oklahoma Jewish charter school
Many local Jews, opposed to what would be country’s first such institution, claim school board can’t be trusted to vigorously defend state’s secular education laws
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Parents pick up their children at the end of the school day at an elementary school in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council after the army and Education Ministry approved the partial resumption of studies in areas where the risk of missile fire is relatively low and schools have protected spaces, March 16, 2026.(Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
April 7, 2026, 12:44 pm
Schools set to partially reopen Sunday, subject to IDF guidelines
Lower-risk areas to alternate between in-person and remote learning, with 30 to 50 percent of the students attending classes in person at a time, if there’s shelter nearby
By ToI Staff and Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: An empty classroom at a school in Safed, northern Israel, on August 31, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 15, 2026, 6:48 pm
Several cities keep schools shut despite revised guidelines allowing them to reopen
Ashkelon, Ariel and Dimona decide conditions are not yet suitable to reopen their education systems, though the Home Front Command designated them as areas at lower risk
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: A high school student looks to another student for answers during an assignment (iStock by Getty Images)
February 20, 2026, 3:09 am
Radical online content derails students hungry for info on Middle East conflict, study finds
Amid a sea of contradictory claims, high schoolers often believe whatever is most repeated in their social media feeds; better education is the answer, says Chapman University report
By Zev Stub
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