Teaching in israel

Israel education system short 3,000 teachers, raising fears over quality of learning

Israel faces a shortage of 3,000 educators, including 200 kindergarten teachers, raising concerns that unqualified staff may have to teach unfamiliar subjects or oversee two classes at once.

Children return to school following the ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah at Gamla Primary School in Katsrin, Golan Heights, April 19, 2026.
ASAF & GABRIELLE COHEN on their wedding day in Beit Lechem Haglalit, May 24, 2020.

Gabrielle Soffer: Using her English for the good of others in Israel

(Illustrative) An empty classroom at a school in Safed, northern Israel, August 31, 2025

Israeli former teacher sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for indecent acts against eight pupils

Children return to school in Rishon LeZion following a ceasefire in the war with Iran, April 9, 2026.

School system to fully reopen across Israel starting Sunday, Education Ministry confirms


Which Israel educator are you?

A tour guide or teacher might also have higher expectations of her students. She may embrace the Socratic method continuously, even when students are exhausted.

 The Education Committee discusses education in Haredi schools.

Average salary for teachers: NIS 13,880

Kindergarten teachers earn an average of NIS 12,884, working 30.4 hours per week.

Twenty-six teachers who volunteered to come to Israel and teach English attended a special workshop of the Israel-is organization.

These Israeli teachers stood out during the coronavirus pandemic

While many teachers struggled to reach out to students via distance learning, these teachers proved that quality education is only a matter of choice.

Yifat Schechter

Herzog College: Leading the renaissance at Hechal Shlomo

TODAY, HERZOG has embarked on an ambitious restoration of Hechal Shlomo in an effort to restore it to its former glory.

Hechal Shlomo, the former headquarters of the chief rabbis of Israel, is now the home of Herzog College’s Jerusalem campus and its International Center of Jewish Heritage

Suspects indicted in murder of Ramle teacher killed by stray bullet

Police allege that the two suspects, aged 26 and 27, ambushed a member of Muammar's family due to tensions between the opposing families.

Sharifa Abu Muammar

Gary Hargrave on the Intrinsic Value of Giving

With decades of experience in Christian ministry and church leadership, Gary Hargrave is known especially for his message of unity through spiritual maturity.


Strike? Education Ministry, Teachers' Union to reconvene on Monday

The Finance Ministry wants these teachers, especially those who work in the preschools, to be furloughed. The Teachers’ Union wants an alternative.

Children are returning to school in Israel amid the coronavirus pandemic. August 24, 2020.

60% of eligible students show up for daycare, kindergarten on Sunday

Finance Ministry pushing to open additional grades * Travelers report crowded bus stations and long waits.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion welcomes students on their first day back to school (May 10, 2020)

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.