Teaching in israel

Teacher shortage: The statistic shaking Israel’s education system - opinion

If we fail to invest now in securing the future of our children’s education, and instead privatize the system while neglecting Israeli educators, we are forfeiting the future of society itself.

|ByTOMER SAMARKANDI
A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.
View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some Municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023.

Israeli teachers delay school opening following extreme violence, harassments by students

"Violence against teaching staff is becoming an everyday phenomenon that we must not normalize," Teachers Union Chairman Michael Pinto said in a statement on Monday.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and his wife, Michal, visit first-graders on the first day of the school year in Kiryat Shmona, on September 1. A new contract for excellent teaching must combine fairness and wisdom, says the writer.

A new contract for excellent teaching - opinion

A new contract can ensure that Israel’s students will have a generation of teachers who prepare them for the intellectual, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century.

|ByRONY RAMOT
Bags of cocaine that were seized by Israel Police.

Police seize half a kilo of cocaine from a kindergarten teacher arrested for drug trafficking

The kindergarten teacher was found with nearly half a kilogram of cocaine on their person, as well as a large sum of money.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel's school year is about to start and everyone is clueless

EDUCATION AFFAIRS: In quiet classrooms around the country, teachers are hanging decorations, organizing lessons and preparing a year’s worth of daily education.

AUGUST 26, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
THE LOCKED gate of a Jerusalem school. Will it open up next week?

Herzog College: Bible study days inspire and connect on campus, online

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes: “Every profession has its annual conference, and the Yemei Iyun B’Tanach is where Tanach teachers come from all over the globe for inspiration and mentorship.”

AUGUST 24, 2022ByBENJY SINGER
Part of the crowd at Herzog College’s Yemei Iyun.

Teens not equipped by schools to face society’s challenges – IDSF

A new IDSF survey has found that 70% of Israel's high school teachers believe that students are unprepared for their entry into the IDF upon graduation.

AUGUST 23, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

Day of meetings yields no progress towards preventing teacher's strike

The latest negotiations between the Teachers' Union and Finance Ministry will be reconvening tomorrow to find a solution rather than the teachers' going on strike.

AUGUST 21, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Israeli teachers protest as they demand better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022.

Liberman presents ‘generous offer’ to Israel’s Teachers Union

Two weeks before schools resume, Israel’s Finance Ministry proposed an agreement to ease concerns over working conditions

AUGUST 17, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at a cabinet meeting on 24/07/2022.

Israeli Finance Ministry to blame for Teachers Union dispute - minister

The ministry "does not care about teachers, parents or students," Israel's Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton said.

AUGUST 17, 2022ByMAARIV ONLINE
Israeli parliament member Yifat Shasha Biton visits the coronadepartment at the Ziv Hospital in Tzfat, Northern Israel. December 03, 2020.

Now is the time to be a teacher in Israel - opinion

Authorities must also invest for our children’s future.

AUGUST 6, 2022ByELI DUDAEI
NEW TEACHERS run a summer school, located at Alonei Yitzhak in the North, as part of the training they receive from Hotam.

OECD report finds Israel has one of the biggest pay gaps between teachers

Israel has one of the world’s biggest gaps in salaries between teachers, according to a report by the OECD on teachers’ salaries in 2021.

AUGUST 1, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

How can Jewish schools be bad?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The Teachers' Union has become a strategic problem for the Jewish state. Their enemy was merit. It still is. 

JULY 30, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
YAFFA BEN-DAVID, head of the Teachers’ Union, greets teachers participating in a demonstration in Tel Aviv in May demanding better pay and work conditions.

Teachers Union vs gov't: Finance Min. offers NIS 9,000 starting salary in negotiations

The Teachers Union responded that their demands are far from being met and that the talks are far from over. 

JULY 25, 2022By JERUSALEM POST STAFF