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Yifat Shasha-Biton

Families of young female surveillance soldiers killed on October 7 attend a hearing in the Knesset, January 9, 2024. (Sam Sokol)
January 9, 2024, 6:06 pm
Parents, MKs call for probe into IDF refusal to heed surveillance troops’ warnings
A investigation is needed ‘to bring the truth to light because nothing else can give us all rest,’ Eyal Eshel, whose daughter Sgt. Roni Eshel was killed on Oct. 7, tells lawmakers
By Sam Sokol
Palestinians fleeing Gaza City towards the southern areas walk on a road in the Strip on November 7, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
January 4, 2024, 12:56 pm
Likud minister slams Smotrich, Ben Gvir’s ‘unrealistic’ call for Gazan emigration
‘It’s clear that the international community won’t accept it,’ argues Miki Zohar in response to calls for ‘voluntary’ resettlement of Palestinians; Shasha-Biton also condemns plan
By Sam Sokol
High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)
March 8, 2023, 1:12 am
Israel, Poland reach agreement to resume school Holocaust trips after 3-year hiatus
Educational visits have not taken place due to disputes over curriculum, as Polish government attempts to minimize local complicity in genocide
By ToI Staff
Incoming minister of Education Yoav Kisch (right) at replacement ceremony for outgoing minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (not seen), at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)
January 5, 2023, 7:57 pm
New education minister scraps predecessor’s matriculation reforms
A week after taking office, Yoav Kisch cans move to cancel exams in history, literature, civics, and Bible and replace them with class projects, multidisciplinary work
By Ash Obel
High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)
January 1, 2023, 3:52 pm
Poland dispute over Holocaust school trips’ content resolved, says outgoing minister
Shasha-Biton tells successor Kisch that security issues will be fixed within days, students to resume annual memorial trips; both trade barbs over matriculation exam changes
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton attends an emergency conference on the 'liquidation sale' of the education system in the Knesset on December 6, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 6, 2022, 2:45 pm
Alarmed education officials warn ministry will be ‘dismantled’ under new government
As departments divvied up among parties, PM leads emergency Knesset meeting on ‘stopping education system’s liquidation’; Likud MK likens left to Hanukkah story’s reviled Antiochus
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 27, 2022. (Yoav Dudkevitch/Pool)
October 27, 2022, 8:19 pm
Cabinet approves major budget redistribution to allow raising teachers’ wages
Finance Ministry’s budget department warns against $1.3 billion cut to funds of multiple ministries; pair of ministers walk out of meeting, one votes against proposal
By Michael Horovitz
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
From left to right: Teachers' Union Secretary-General Yaffa Ben David, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman hold a press conference following the new salary agreement with teachers on August 31, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 21, 2022, 1:05 pm
Teachers union, government sign long-awaited deal raising wages, adjusting vacation
New teachers to receive NIS 9,000 a month under agreement, principals to start at NIS 19,000; vacation schedule to be changed
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students at the Ramon School in Modi'in, on October 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
September 23, 2022, 2:44 am
Half of Israeli 7th-11th graders say studies suffered due to COVID
Education Ministry survey of pedagogic, social and emotional impacts of pandemic also finds many in younger grades feel schools got better during coronavirus years
By ToI Staff
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
From left to right: Teachers' Union Secretary-General Yaffa Ben David, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman hold a press conference following the new salary agreement with teachers on August 31, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 31, 2022, 10:37 am
Treasury, teachers union reach wage deal to avert strike at start of school year
New teachers to receive NIS 9,000 a month under agreement, principals to start at NIS 19,000; vacation schedule to be changed
By Michael Horovitz
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference, presenting new reform on housing, at the Finance Ministry offices in Jerusalem, on October 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2022, 11:18 pm
Court turns back government’s bid to block impending teachers strike
Petition rejected on technicality; attempt indicates officials pessimistic deal can be reached by Thursday, first day of school year
By Ash Obel
Yaffa Ben David, the secretary general of the Israel Teachers Union, arrives for negotiations at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, August 30, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2022, 1:01 pm
Teachers union chief signals optimism in talks to avert strike, but gaps remain
As school year meant to start Thursday, Yaffa Ben David says aim is to iron out details quickly, with significant hurdles cleared; sides still at loggerheads over vacation days
By Michael Horovitz
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