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Children arrive for their first day of the new school year at Shahar Eshkol Elementary School in the Eshkol Regional Council, near the Gaza border in southern Israel, September 1, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
September 1, 2026, 1:04 pm
2.6 million students return to school amid teacher shortages, systemic challenges
Over 20,000 students head to class in Gaza border towns, 9% more than in Sept. 2023; police secure Jerusalem school targeted by Haredi extremists; East Jerusalem private schools strike over restrictions on teachers from West Bank
By ToI Staff, Sue Surkes, Nurit Yohanan and Diana Bletter
Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mariam Dagga)
August 11, 2025, 10:11 pm
Former students at Israeli institute raise some $60,000 for Gazan ex-colleagues
Group has helped 2 alumni of Arava institute for Environmental Studies leave enclave for universities overseas, supports a third still in the Strip and the families of all three
By Sue Surkes
Small cube-shaped satellites built by Israeli students. (Ronen Horesh/GPO)
March 15, 2025, 8:17 pm
9 tiny satellites built by Israeli students blast off into space
Small cube-shaped devices contain scientific and communications instruments, will spend some three years in a 500-kilometer orbit
By ToI Staff
Visitors enter through the main gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (literally in English: "work makes (one) free") at the entrance to the Auschwitz German Nazi death camp ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 1:53 am
Israeli student detained and fined for alleged Nazi salute on trip to Auschwitz
Security guards spotted member of group from Kiryat Bialik high school with arm raised; companion asserts he was just waving to spoil another’s photo of camp entrance gates
By ToI Staff
Students at Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus on the first day of the school year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 1, 2023, 11:53 am
NIS 50m per year to be invested in boosting English proficiency among undergraduates
Council for Higher Education’s 5-year plan aims to internationalize Israeli academia by upping the number of courses taught in English, sending students for apprenticeships abroad
By ToI Staff
Students march in Tel Aviv against the government's planned judicial overhaul, January 29, 2023. (Twitter: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 29, 2023, 11:13 pm
‘Fighting for our future’: Tel Aviv high schoolers rally against judicial overhaul
‘Students are asking to take a moral, not a political, stand,’ says Ironi Dalet High School principal Uri Lass
By Tobias Siegal
Students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, January 16, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
January 16, 2023, 3:17 pm
‘This is an emergency’: Thousands of students rally against judicial makeover plan
Coordinated ‘strike’ held in over a dozen universities and colleges, with organizers vowing to fight ‘liquidation of the justice system’; counter-rallies back ‘fixing’ of judiciary
By Michael Bachner
A student in Hartman secondary school in Jerusalem takes a matriculation exam in mathematics in 2010 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
February 8, 2022, 11:01 am
Major education reform will slash number of high school matriculation exams
Students will be required to pass 4-5 exams instead of 12-14; reform expected to come into effect next year
By Tobias Siegal
An electric car for elderly people, a project developed by students and faculty of Ariel University (Courtesy)
November 26, 2020, 11:39 am
Israeli students’ electric car for elderly to compete in Dubai-based show
Two-meter car was designed at Ariel University; it can park perpendicular to sidewalk, door opens in front and seats slide forward to ease exit
By Jake Epstein
Students seen on the Safra Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the first day of the new Academic school year, on October 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 18, 2020, 9:20 am
Amid pandemic, most college students out of work, 24% may drop out — survey
Poll shows 51% of students unemployed since start of coronavirus crisis; student union head warns of ‘severe social epidemic’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Arab Israeli students at the campus of Givat Ram at Hebrew University, on the first day of the new academic year, October 26, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 15, 2020, 1:00 pm
Pandemic fallout for higher education especially tough for Arab students – study
Survey shows 22% of Arabs mulling leaving school vs 10% of Jews; authors note danger of widespread dropouts as schooling is ‘most significant tool for social and economic mobility’
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: A large number of students sitting at a high school assembly. (Lincoln Beddoe/ Istock Images)
September 8, 2020, 4:37 pm
Israeli classrooms have 5 more kids than OECD average; teachers earn 5% less
Still, annual report finds Israel ahead of the curve on women’s education and on share of the population getting higher education
By ToI Staff
Leket Israel collected 2.2 million cooked meals from institutions in 2018 to donate to soup kitchens and charities across Israel, like this archive photo of volunteers collecting uneaten food from a hotel. (Courtesy, Leket Israel)
March 24, 2020, 6:47 pm
NGO that gives meals to schoolkids in need will deliver to homes amid pandemic
NEVET and Leket Israel join forces to provide pre-packaged hot meals, ensure deprived children and their families continue to benefit from nutritional food
By Sue Surkes
Fourth-grade student Shira Sofer pictured with the ninth-century gold coin she found and archaeologist Achia Cohen-Tavor, May 30, 2019. (Nicole Gutman, Karev Program for Educational Involvement)
June 2, 2019, 2:46 pm
Fourth-grader unearths 9th century gold coin during educational dig
‘I saw something sparkling, so I just picked it up,’ says 10-year-old Shira Sofer, one of hundreds of children taking part in regional archaeology program in central Israel
By ToI Staff
Students work on a specially crafted treatment mannequin at the $5 million medical simulation center that the European Union paid for at Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University. (Andrei Ichim/ Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University)
December 17, 2018, 4:51 am
Nearly 1,600 Arab and Jewish Israeli med students flock to Moldova for school
Israeli citizens make up a quarter of the student body at Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University in Chisinau — by far the largest group of foreign pupils
By Hal Foster
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