Avraham Shochat

The eight remaining members of the Labor faction will convene at the Knesset on Wednesday for their first meeting since Defense Minister Ehud Barak…

LINKS BETWEEN Jerusalem and Rome span a bridge of centuries, and it is no secret that Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is extremely well…

A few dozen people in their 20s and 30s who have graduate degrees in economics, business administration and law are among the most influential…

In a performance in Israel a decade ago, comedian Sandra Bernhard summed up the Israel-Arab conflict with the conclusion: "You two peoples deserve…

"Bibi took your pensions away. He threw them into the financial market jungle, ruining your future. He imported a failed capitalist ideology to…

GLOBES, ISRAEL's financial daily, has for the past decade been the annual host of the Israel Business Conference. This year it finds more reason than…

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, is an auspicious date not only for the contestants in the Kadima primaries, but also for culture activist Claude Brightman,…

It is another season of finger-pointing about the failure to care for Nazi victims. In the last year, there was Isaac Herzog's plan for the Social…

In a seeming leap from success to potential disaster, Bar-Ilan University President Moshe Kaveh, former head of the Committee of University…

University students resumed their academic studies on Sunday after an agreement signed Friday afternoon ended a three-month long strike by senior…

A dizzying number of foreign officials have visited Yad Vashem. The visit may not be part of the official diplomatic welcome mat, but it is a routine…

Student leaders were quick to respond on Monday to the publication of the Shochat Committee's recommendations for higher education reforms,…

Amid bitter and loud debate, 33 student union leaders from around the country voted by a 2-to-1 margin late Monday night to accept the government's…

A quarter of a million students here have been on strike for more than three weeks now. Despite multiple attempts at resolving the crisis, no…

The student unions and the Prime Minister's Office were at odds Wednesday over a canceled meeting between student leaders and the prime minister…

When Israel's academic and research institutions find themselves in crisis, they needn't try to reinvent the wheel. Many other nations have…

High schools and junior highs across the country remained closed Thursday as teachers continued their strike in protest of the delay in a new salary…

High schools and junior highs across the country remained closed Thursday as teachers continued their strike in protest of the delay in a new salary…

Student unions have threatened to shut down all public universities and colleges Tuesday in protest over what they have called the government's…

The ongoing debate over the future of the country's education system seems to be picking up steam. Teachers are increasingly striking, students are…