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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

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Secondary School Teachers' Association chair Ran Erez during a press conference in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
May 24, 2022, 8:29 am
Teachers union declares work dispute, threatens strike over matriculation reform
High school teachers union head says education minister’s plan to scrap testing for history, literature, civics and biblical studies will harm students and make them ‘ignorant’
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks during a press conference on the school matriculation examination reform in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 27, 2022, 10:25 am
Education minister unveils matriculation reform, riling teachers
Changes will bring new style of study and testing for history, literature, civics, and biblical studies; minister says change needed to match modern world
By ToI Staff
Palestinian high school students wave and spray artificial snow from a moving vehicle as they celebrate the announcement of their matriculation exams in Hebron in the West Bank on July 11, 2020. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
July 12, 2020, 5:51 am
Amid pandemic, Palestinian high schoolers celebrate final exams results
Fireworks and gunshots ring throughout West Bank, East Jerusalem for hours, 41 arrested; in Gaza, Hamas bans celebratory shooting in attempt to crack down on dangerous custom
By Aaron Boxerman
The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on September 9, 2019. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
July 11, 2020, 9:25 am
Jerusalem police say ‘gunfire reports’ just celebratory fireworks in city’s east
Pyrotechnics set off Saturday morning to mark the publication of grades from matriculation exams; noise of firecrackers continues into night
By ToI Staff
Students in Kiryat Sharet high school in Holon take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 21, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 22, 2015, 3:24 pm
Just half of Israeli teens pass 2014 matriculation
Only 52.7% of 17- and 18-year-olds receive graduation certificate, slightly less than previous year
By Avi Lewis
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) seen with other members of Knesset, after a Knesset vote on enabling an increase in the number of government ministers, May 11, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 12, 2015, 2:13 pm
Fat chance against a slim majority?
The two-vote margin of victory for the prime minister’s cabinet expansion measure makes headlines, as do dastardly opposition plans to, you know, oppose him
By Joshua Davidovich
Students in Kiryat Sharet high school in Holon take their matriculation exams in mathematics, on May 21 2013. (illustrative photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 8, 2014, 11:42 pm
School reforms to do away with some standardized tests
New policies include reducing matriculation tests; university admission based on exams or psychometric, but not both
By Marissa Newman
High school students take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
May 23, 2013, 3:15 pm
Furious students add threats to the equation over math test
Education ministry coordinator wasn’t involved in writing the matriculation exam, which many deemed way too difficult
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of a remote home in Norway (CC BY-supervillian, Flickr)
April 24, 2013, 2:46 pm
How’s Norway this time of year?
Budget cuts are on the way and Syria and Iran are looking scarier by the minute. At least cars and other forms of escape will be getting cheaper
By Joshua Davidovich
Ministers test drive their new tablet computers at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting April 7 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)
April 10, 2013, 3:06 pm
Throw the Facebook at ’em
Yair Lapid says his staffers went behind his back to threaten a tuition hike, but not everybody is happy with him using Facebook to scold his minions
By Joshua Davidovich
Then-defense minister Ehud Barak (holding pen) looks at then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman (to his right) at a cabinet meeting led by then-premier Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)
August 23, 2012, 12:14 pm
Making the grade
Matriculation data is released for every city in Israel with some surprising results; good news for Israel’s road safety; and Barak vs. Liberman
By Yossi Nachemi
Hartman High School students take their matriculation exams in mathematics (: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 22, 2012, 10:46 pm
6 out of 10 Jerusalem teens don’t graduate high-school
Nationwide statistics reveal a widening gap between rich and poor, secular and religious
By Ron Friedman
High school students in Jerusalem seen with their report cards on their last day of school. (Photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90
August 9, 2012, 5:50 am
Only half of 12th graders matriculate
Ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs lag far behind rest of the population in ‘bagrut’ exams
By Sam Ser
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