Israel education

Where campus meets kindergarten: HIT and Holon Municipality bring STEM to young learners

HIT and the Holon Municipality have launched a pilot program placing the institute’s students in local preschools to ignite a love of science from early childhood.

HIT's team headed by the President  Prof. Eduard Yakubov and Holon's Municipality team headed by Mayor Shai Keinan with the students
Council for Higher Education approves the Kiryat Shmona University of the Galilee.

Council for Higher Education approves Kiryat Shmona University in effort to rebuild northern Israel

STEM education is a national security issue

Israel’s security depends on tech education - opinion

Children arrive for the first day of school in the Israeli town of Mevaseret Zion, September 1, 2025.

Survey reveals majority of Israeli kids not learning English fluency, not prepared for 'real world'


Israel improves slightly in international math and science ranking

Israeli students ranked 9th in math and 16th in science among the 39 participating countries.

Back to school amid a pandemic

Schools and rules in the corona era

Peggy Cidor's round-up of city affairs

Reciting Selichot at the Moussaieff Synagogue in the Bukharan Quarter

Israel unable to educate children during COVID-19 – comptroller

The Education Ministry failed to map how much computers, laptops and Internet service packages are needed, the report warns – nor does it know when it will be able to.

Ultra-Orthodox children wearing face masks at their school in the city of Rehovot, May 24, 2020

Why Israel: 4 good reasons to study in Israel

Despite only recently celebrating its 70th birthday as a state, Israel has quickly risen to be one of the most desirable destinations for students looking to study abroad.


Bracing for long distance learning in Israeli higher learning institutes

EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS: Institutions of higher learning and students are bracing for another semester of socially distanced intercourse.

Scenes like this at Tel Aviv Univerity last year will be replaced by Zoom screens

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

Great education can bring together online and off-line experiences

Forward-thinking education models can take advantage of the benefits of both online and off-line learning, as well as the unique synergy of their combination.

AFTER NAVIGATING an involuntary crash course in online learning, educational institutions are now recognizing that they will eventually deploy these strategies alongside off-line experiences in the post-COVID future.

Online Learning from Home is a Privilege. It Shouldn't Be.


Amid heatwave, students sent home for arriving in shorts deemed too short

"School is a place that should be engaged in education and maintaining the health of students, not the length of pants."

Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019

Volunteer teachers arrive to help underprivileged Israeli schools

"Even an international virus cannot stop educators seeking to allow students equal opportunity to pursue core subjects."

THIRTY international volunteers arrive in Israel to teach English and core subjects to underprivileged Israeli youth, August, 2020.