Teaching in israel

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.

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.
Bags of cocaine that were seized by Israel Police.

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

Anat Vidor, President of WIZO

Beyond Budgets and Shortages: What Teachers Really Protect

Israeli students return to school, September 1, 2025.

School is back in session: 2.5 million students head to class as Israeli academic year begins


Which students and teachers still need to stay home from school?

Children who have had recurrent hospitalizations due to complex illnesses will not be allowed to return to school without first

Anais, a student at the International Bilingual School (EIB), attends her online lessons in her bedroom in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, March 20, 2020.

The question of how teaching the Holocaust without firsthand witnesses

Holocaust educators are being forced to confront a fraught question: What will happen to the teaching of the Holocaust when the firsthand witnesses are gone?

A RELATIVE of a Holocaust survivor places a flower next to the name of a former concentration camp during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

Humiliating, disproportionate punishments evident in Israeli schools – report

Around 50% of the total protests came from those in secondary schools, the rest come from the second half of pre-primary, elementary and special education students.

Students going to school

Hour of Code will teach kids how to create technology

Initiative geared toward children and students, but anyone is invited to take part.

Computer code and an Israeli flag

Want good teachers? Turn them into entrepreneurs

Students listen to teacher (illustrative)

OECD: Israel big spender on education, students receive less

"We are leading a series of significant reforms, but the system faces major and important challenges, which require closing budgetary gaps."

A mother takes a selfie with her first-grade daughter on the first day of school

Rethinking learning at World ORT

‘Our students understand how things work and they can create anything. We don’t tell them what to do. We tell them how to do.’

ORT Mexico maker space

Could strike action delay the start of the new school year?

The threat of strike action follows the July expiration of a previous agreement concerning increased teacher wages between the government and Israel Teachers' Union, called "New Horizon."

First-grade pupils attend the first day of a school in Jerusalem on September 2

Parents and students send 59,000 complaints to Education Ministry

In the past five years there has been a 22% increase of calls to the ministry as well.

Group of students raising hands during a lesson in the classroom. [Illustrative]

Life, Life, Life: Educating for excellence

Shula Recanati was raised by her Holocaust-survivor parents in Tel Aviv. She grew up imbued with the values of humanism and caring for those in need.

E4E RUNS 46 centers throughout Israel, serving more than 4,500 pupils who have the potential to shine, given half a chance.