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Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a joint meeting of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee, the Welfare Committee, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2026, 3:53 am
After Iranian missile attacks on south, all schools go remote on Sunday and Monday
In-person classes canceled for all students, including special ed, after impacts in cities of Dimona and Arad, and cluster bomb damage to empty daycare in Rishon Lezion
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Students and parents at the Upper East Side's Town School celebrate the school's third annual Shabbat. (Pierangelo Rossi via JTA)
January 30, 2026, 5:31 am
Oct. 7 spurred this NYC secular private school to start holding an annual Shabbat gathering
After the Hamas atrocities and the wave of antisemitism that followed, Jewish students at the Town School sought an affinity group of their own – and have been met with enthusiasm
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Palestinian students attend class inside a tent set up on the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, November 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
November 17, 2025, 2:31 pm
In Gaza, families struggle to find spots for kids in makeshift schools
UNICEF estimates only 100,000 of Gaza’s 600,000 children have been able to return to school since ceasefire as repairs on institutions destroyed in war have yet to begin
By AP
Palestinian pupils attend a class at a school set up by the Mayasem Association for Culture with UNICEF support, at a displacement camp in the area of Khan Younis. October 7, 2025.(Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
November 7, 2025, 10:44 am
Despite Israel’s bid to shut it, UNRWA resumes teaching in Gaza as kids hit books amid rubble
Agency long accused of using antisemitic content leads return to in-person education, while expensive private schools and others try to fill gap left by still-closed Hamas-run system
By Nurit Yohanan
Tour director smiles as he conducts Argentine students chanting 'Today we burn Jews' on graduation trip in screenshot from video that went viral on September 28, 2025. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 30, 2025, 9:52 am
‘Today we burn Jews’: Argentine students chant on bus, with Jewish students on board
Students from Escuela Humanos, which says it trains ‘ambassadors of peace,’ seen in video shouting antisemitic slogan as tour coordinator apparently joins in; Milei: ‘Reprehensible’
By Juan Melamed
The school in eastern Rafah, run by the forces of Yasser Abu Shabab, August 10, 2025. (Screenshot: Facebook, clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 21, 2025, 9:51 pm
In IDF-controlled Rafah, an armed clan’s school plants seeds of a Hamas-free future
The Abu Shabab gang claims to have carved out an area where it is providing electricity, medical care and education for thousands of displaced Gazans under IDF protection
By Nurit Yohanan
Students at Jones College Prep in Chicago hold a sit-in to protest their school's alleged lack of reaction to a student's Nazi-esque Halloween costume, November 7, 2022. (Courtesy of Isaac Simon via JTA)
August 10, 2025, 2:53 am
Concerned by antisemitism, parents lead effort to launch new Jewish high school in Chicago
With private and public schools reportedly failing to address Jew hatred and a lack of non-Orthodox options within city limits, a new initiative is gaining steam
By Grace Gilson
Students go back to school in Tel Aviv after a strike, May 6, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 24, 2025, 5:33 pm
Home Front Command lifts all restrictions on civilians; schools to reopen Wednesday
Limitations on gatherings removed in almost all parts of Israel after Iran ceasefire; workplaces to open as normal; schools damaged by missile fire will not be obligated to open
By Emanuel Fabian and Ben Sales
Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out in protest of antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)
June 4, 2025, 12:55 am
Ethnic studies compromise opens door to broader antisemitism legislation in California
Jewish groups don’t want Jews painted unfairly or Israel singled out in a new curriculum mandate. Now, several racial caucuses may be willing to help
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 7, 2025, 6:52 pm
Labor Court rules teachers must stop taking sick days to protest salary cuts
Court says teachers can’t legally strike outside union framework, must return to work; union official says talks on salary agreement ongoing, chair working to improve conditions
By ToI Staff
View of a closed school in Givatayim, during a strike, on May 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 5, 2025, 5:52 pm
Many schools, kindergartens still closed despite deal as teachers protest salary cut
Around 10% of workforce said to use sick days, irate over concessions made by Teachers Union chief; strike leader says deal ‘denigrates’ hardworking teachers
By ToI Staff
Students return to Tel Hai Elementary School after it was closed during the war with Hezbollah, December 1, 2024. (Ynet screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 1, 2024, 5:40 pm
Children return to schools in north as Hezbollah ceasefire holds
Education minister fetes resumption of class for 150,000 students; father in village where schools remain closed says institutions hosting evacuees not adequately supported
By ToI Staff
Idit Dayan (center, wearing yellow), the principal of the Gil Rabin School in Sderot, southern Israel, welcomes children back for the new school year, on September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2024, 4:07 pm
While Israeli kids near Gaza rejoice at return to school, parents remain ambivalent
More than 550 children start new school year at the Gil Rabin School in Sderot, where soldiers and police stand guard outside while staff and students dress in yellow for hostages
By Sue Surkes
Education Minister Yoav Kisch (left) and Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi visit Israeli children at their classroom on the first day of school since October 7 massacre, in the southern city of Sderot, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
July 23, 2024, 4:49 pm
Education minister: Students won’t start school year in displaced northern towns
Kisch presents local leaders with NIS 152 million plan for educational institutions outside war zone in north for students; Gantz says decision ‘expected and frustrating’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: School buses drive from the campus of East Brunswick High School after the school day on East Brunswick, New Jersey, February 22, 2018. (DOMINICK REUTER / AFP)
June 20, 2024, 3:32 pm
Officials say carelessness behind Jewish student group’s absence from US school yearbook
Probe finds yearbook advisor at East Brunswick Public Schools in New Jersey rushed and inserted wrong image on page by mistake
By Michael Rubinkam
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