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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Ran Erez

Officials sign a new teachers' agreement, on September 23, 2024. Left to to right: Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Head of Wages and Labor Agreements at the Federation of Local Authorities Hagit Magen, Federation of Local Authorities chair Haim Bibas and Secondary School Teachers' Association chief Ran Erez (Education Ministry)
September 23, 2024, 3:17 pm
Government, teachers’ union announce 5-year salary agreement
New deal includes retroactive grant and raises for teachers, principals and specialized staff; agreement allows for trial run of ‘individual contracts’ for some new hires
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: A school built for children and teens who were evacuated from their homes due to the security situation, in the northern Israeli town of Rosh Pina, on August 26, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
September 9, 2024, 12:45 pm
Reports of disarray as high schools reopen after abrupt halt to teachers’ strike
Union head Erez says teachers returning due to ‘responsibility to the country’ but won’t submit grades; late notice denounced by student, parent and teachers’ groups
By Gavriel Fiske
Secondary School Teachers Association chair Ran Erez attends a Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 9, 2024, 2:10 am
Union head: Teachers’ strike ‘suspended’; student, parent bodies denounce late notice
Ran Erez says high school teachers returning due to ‘responsibility to the state’ but won’t submit grades or permit off-campus activities; other unions: Don’t go to school Monday
By Gavriel Fiske
Teachers' Association chief Ran Erez attends an Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 4, 2024, 6:34 pm
High school teachers’ strike may ‘certainly’ last until late October, union head says
Ran Erez also says education minister ‘doesn’t understand his job’; strike, which began Sunday, affects over 500,000 students who are already behind due to years of pandemic, war
By Gavriel Fiske
Education minister Yoav Kisch attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2024, 11:02 pm
High school teachers go on strike Sunday after talks founder on eve of school year
Crisis talks don’t yield breakthrough; Education Minister Kisch slams union head Ran Erez and Finance Minister Smotrich, says both ‘want this strike’ and are locked in ‘ego battle’
By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff
Secondary School Teachers Association chair Ran Erez attends a Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 11:11 pm
Finance minister, teachers union trade blame as strike set for first day of school year
Union chief Erez vows to secure collective agreement; Smotrich accuses him of playing power games, threatens to not pay wages during action
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Yoav Kisch, left, and Teachers Union head Ran Erez, right (both photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 5:35 pm
High school teachers union chief declares strike over salary dispute with government
Ran Erez says educators will go on strike September 1, the start of the new school year, as he and the education minister trade blame for deadlocked contract negotiations
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: Keshet high school students in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019. (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
September 6, 2023, 6:52 am
Teachers union threatens strike, accuses Finance Ministry of deception in new deal
Union representing secondary school educators says government officials ‘immediately violated commitment’ just days after 11th-hour agreement averted a strike last week
By ToI Staff
People walk outside the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on June 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2023, 10:36 pm
High schools to open on time as teachers, Treasury reach deal to avert strike
11th-hour agreement will give educators extra NIS 2,000 a month, eventually, and drop some small-group teaching hours in favor of classroom lecturing
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, right, and Education Minister Yoav Kisch at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 30, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
August 31, 2023, 9:10 am
No breakthrough as high school teachers still threaten strike, day before school year
Education Minister Kisch says he’s sitting down with Secondary School Teachers Association head Ran Erez for ‘decisive’ meeting to address gaps in collective salary negotiations
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 26, 2023, 10:19 pm
High school teachers threaten strike from September 1 amid stalled salary talks
Head of Secondary School Teachers’ Association: ‘We are preparing for a long strike’; Arab communities may also keep schools shut amid deadly crime wave
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv, following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 4, 2023, 9:25 pm
High school teachers union to strike Sunday as part of wage dispute
Secondary School Teachers’ Association has been demanding salaries of at least NIS 12,000 per month; Education Ministry says middle schools to operate as normal
By ToI Staff
Secondary School Teachers' Association chief Ran Erez speaks at an education conference by The Marker business newspaper in Kiryat Ono, August 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 23, 2022, 8:55 pm
High school teachers’ association threatens job action over lack of wage agreement
Starting Tuesday, teachers will not participate in activities after school hours; association head says measures meant as a ‘warning’ at this point
By Tobias Siegal
Israeli kids wear school bags ahead of the first day of school outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2022, ahead of the opening of the secular state education system's academic year. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 1, 2022, 6:00 am
After weeks of uncertainty, 1st day of school begins for 2.5 million Israeli pupils
Last-minute agreements with teachers’ unions avert large-scale strikes; 2,496,000 kids, 218,000 education workers head to class Thursday
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli students at a high school in the southern city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)
September 1, 2022, 12:42 am
2.5 million kids to go back to school Thursday after deal reached with high schools
Last-minute agreement between Treasury and Secondary School Teachers’ Association will shorten school week to 5 days, revamp humanities exams
By ToI Staff
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