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Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from a GHF aid distribution point in central Gaza, August 5, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
September 1, 2025, 12:39 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 1: Day 696 – Would Trump seriously consider Gaza relocation plan?
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses security cabinet meeting, postwar proposal; reporter Sue Surkes analyzes gaps among schoolkids and Nahal Brigade in Gaza envelope
By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes
Volunteers for Latet fill backpacks with basic educational supplies for the new school year. (Yakir Amos)
August 31, 2025, 10:05 pm
As children go back to school, two reports detail vast socio-economic gaps
A third of parents foregoing certain lunchbox foods due to cost; 67% of low income families say children lack basic school supplies; 84% unable to fund afterschool programs
By Sue Surkes
Mayor Avichai Stern visits kids at a school in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, as schools reopened for students evacuated durting the war with Hezbollah, March 9, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 5:34 pm
Northern mayor’s aide arrested for scuffling with education minister’s guards
Adviser to Kiryat Shmona’s Avichai Stern says he wanted to speak to Yoav Kisch about safety risks at schools that require repairs
By Charlie Summers and Diana Bletter
A bus stop for students from the western Galilee in Kiryat Motzkin, April 2024. (Inbal Bernstein)
September 25, 2024, 1:04 am
The school ‘routine’ up north: Sirens, unshielded classrooms, bus rides under fire
Amid escalating flare-up, parents in bombarded communities say their children are paying the price of war, and struggle to come up with solutions
By Tani Goldstein
Parents accompany their children on the first day of school in Katzrin, Golan Heights on September 1, 2024. (Michael Giladi / Flash90)
September 1, 2024, 11:58 am
School year starts with half a million children stuck at home amid teachers’ strike
Over 2.5 million K-12 students in total registered for the new year, with 179,300 starting first grade; special security measures in place in north and south due to war
By 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
Mateh Asher Regional Council chair Moshe Davidovitch (center left) speaks to Education Minister Yoav Kisch (center right) at a meeting between Kisch, northern mayors and officers from the IDF's Home Front Command ahead of the new school year, August 26, 2024 (Walla News screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 27, 2024, 10:19 am
‘You despise us’: Northern mayors slam minister for lack of support ahead of school year
Regional council chair says government showed its indifference to the north by carrying out a preemptive strike on Hezbollah only when the country’s center was threatened
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
June 3, 2024, 2:35 pm
Sirens or school bells: Evacuated northern students don’t know where they’ll be next fall
Authorities prepare new facilities for kids forced to leave homes due to Hezbollah fire; education officials also brace for possibility of war with Lebanon-based terror group
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at a plastic bracelet as he visits first graders in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 1, 2023, 12:39 pm
Netanyahu tells first-graders to ‘be kind,’ as 2.5 million students return to class
School year begins with politicians calling for unity amid political tensions, lack of teachers and a narrowly avoided strike
By ToI Staff
Making sandwiches for kids in need at Nevet, which is currently launching a campaign for the 2022-2023 school year. (Courtesy: Nevet)
September 1, 2022, 6:51 pm
Two local charities care for kids with sandwiches and school supplies
Nevet and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews aim to help students in need
By Jessica Steinberg
Teachers protest outside the home of Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Monday, June 28, 2022. (Courtesy Israel Teachers Union)
July 26, 2022, 7:49 am
Teachers reject Treasury proposal to end strikes: ‘Worse’ than existing conditions
Offer of NIS 9,000 significantly improves starting wages, but also increases working hours; union accuses treasury of manipulating numbers
By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students at a school in Modi'in, January 30, 2022. (Flash90)
July 24, 2022, 7:24 pm
Education Ministry says 5,600 teaching positions unfilled ahead of school year
Elementary schools facing shortfall of 424 English, 250 science teachers; Tel Aviv and central Israel bear the brunt with nearly 3,500 missing staff
By ToI Staff
Members of the Subsidized Daycare Forum hold a press conference, at Hamacabia Village in Ramat Gan, on July 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 24, 2022, 4:58 pm
Subsidized daycare centers threaten to keep their doors closed come September
Histadrut chief urges Lapid to intervene: ‘10,000 toddlers will be left without a daycare center this year’
By Tobias Siegal
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks at a press conference at the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, in preparation for the opening of the school year nationwide, on August 31, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 1, 2021, 6:45 am
Full text: The Education Ministry’s rules for opening schools
Ministry publishes full set of regulations for the opening of the new school year amid the COVID surge on September 1
By ToI Staff
Health Minister Director-General Nachman Ash at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 14, 2021.(Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
August 18, 2021, 1:43 pm
Health Ministry chief orders schools to allow vaccinations on premises
Sidelining education minister, Nachman Ash instructs principals to permit medical teams on-site during school hours to inoculate students whose parents give approval
By ToI Staff
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