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Children arrive for the first day of school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 1, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
September 8, 2026, 5:48 pm
Israel plummets to worst-ever OECD education scores in math, reading, science
Drop seen in all three skills compared to previous assessment in 2022; country descends to 33rd among developed countries; minister blames war conditions at time of 2025 testing
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Israeli high school students taking an exam, in Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 11:02 am
OECD study shows Israeli teens excel at ‘creative thinking’
Israel places 20th in international study conducted in 63 countries, but results illustrate huge gaps between Hebrew and Arabic speakers
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative photo of Israeli high schoolers taking an exam. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 14, 2023, 7:12 pm
Israeli 10th graders still struggling, but dodge global post-COVID drop-off — study
2022 PISA survey shows Israeli 15-year-olds avoided the ‘unprecedented performance drop’ seen worldwide, but are still ranked below international average in academic skills
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative image of Arab Israeli school students, March 3, 2016, (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 3, 2019, 1:14 pm
OECD finds record educational gulf between Hebrew, Arabic-speaking Israeli kids
Survey of 79 countries shows Israel has worst socioeconomic gap; education minister sets up working group after dire scores in Arab sector in reading, math, sciences
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: A Haredi school in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, August 27, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 16, 2019, 9:50 am
The kids are not all right, expert warns — and that spells danger for Israel
Substandard education and brain drain are urgent existential threats to the country, says economist Dan Ben-David, and politicians need to do something before it’s too late
By Simona Weinglass
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