Higher education

Israel’s education policies compromise its qualitative edge - opinion

In order to preserve Israel’s qualitative edge, its education system must excel at every level.

Education Minister Yoav Kisch at the education system's arranging room at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem, in preparation for the opening of schools in the country tomorrow morning, August 31, 2025.
Students at Ben Gurion University, in Beer Sheba. November 04, 2025.

Academic institutions switch to remote learning, cancel all non-mandatory activity amid Iran war

YITZIK CROMBIE, the CEO of Israeli start-up Bizmax, poses on November 21 2018 at the company's offices in Jerusalem, the first of its kind for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.

EU appoints first ever haredi to National Team of Higher Education Reform Experts

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Olim navigate studying in Israel


Day care initiative for health care workers during lockdown begins again

Under the operation "Lev Poem," at least 30 day camps, staffed by 500 volunteers, have been set up at hospitals throughout the country.

Lev Poem daycare initiative for children of healthcare staff working during the coronavirus pandemic

Survey: 47% of youth believe higher education is important

25% of the respondents believe that that university will enable them to earn more money and receive a higher salary.

Education

How can Israel boost haredi higher education?

On My Mind: Only 9% of haredi men and 12% of women studied in higher education.

Haredi men walk through Mea Shearim, Jerusalem

Academic leader calls Elkin ‘commissar of higher education’

The decision to fire Neumann was announced on Monday night and followed Elkin’s failure to appoint Ariel University rector Michael Zinigrad to the CHE’s Planning and Budgeting Committee.

Ze'ev Elkin

University entrance exams canceled mid-testing period due to coronavirus

The announcement comes amid new Health Ministry regulations released on Saturday prohibiting exams take place on university campuses across the country.

Students on campus at Tel Aviv University

Higher education exams will be taken online starting Sunday

Starting Sunday, students will be able to take exams online, after it seemed like universities would be ignoring the new coronavirus restrictions and forcing students to come to campus.

Tel Aviv University students relax on the first day of the new academic year, in October 2018.

Israeli college launches ‘world's first’ digital health degree

The new program promises to educate hundreds of undergraduate students in digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, remote medicine and robotics.

Higher Education and Water Resources Minister Ze'ev Elkin (left) and Holon Institute of Technology President Prof. Eduard Yakubov

George Washington University appoints BDS supporter as interim dean

Feldman once participated in an unsuccessful attempt to have the American Anthropological Association (AAA) boycott Israeli academic institutions.

George Washington University

Israel's students protest against Council for Higher Education policy

Many students have gathered in this protest to express their dissatisfaction with the decision maker's choices, feeling that they are the first to have been let off but the last to be rehired.

Israeli students clash with police as they take part in a protest calling for financial aid and equlity in higher education, in Jerusalem May 7, 2020

Israeli universities, colleges to partially reopen this week

While remote learning will continue for students in most higher education institutions, the CHE said groups of up to 15 students will be permitted in some circumstances.

Students from University of Haifa's Innovation Hub hard at work conducting research for their projects.