Israel education

Israel to ban cell phones in middle schools, Education Ministry confirms

This comes after a similar ban rolled out in February in elementary schools.

Israeli students return to school, September 1, 2025.
Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv

Study: IDF Talpiot program excels in producing entrepreneurs

Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch visits an elementary school in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council after the Home Front Command and the Ministry of Education approved the resumption of studies in local authorities where the risk of rocket fire is relatively low and schools have protected spaces.

Schools to gradually reopen after ceasefire, with uneven rollout across Israel

HIT's team headed by the President  Prof. Eduard Yakubov and Holon's Municipality team headed by Mayor Shai Keinan with the students

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


Helen Doron English to be integrated into Israeli school curriculum

Helen Doron wins Ministry of Education tender, adding its English program to school timetables as part of the Gefen program, enhancing English proficiency for grades 1

 Helen Doron English to be integrated into Israeli school curriculum

Israel’s students are hostages in the battle of teachers vs. government - opinion

THE SEVERE harm to high school students, especially the 12th-grade graduates who have completed 12 years of study and are about to enlist to serve the country, must be stopped immediately.

 EDUCATION MINISTER Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee, earlier this month.

If we keep letting war disrupt Israel's education system, we let our enemies win - opinion

However, the long-term effects on a lost generation of children who have large gaps in their education will be colossal and could affect our status as the Start-Up Nation and a first-world economy.

 INAUGURATING THE Benjamin Rothman Eshel Hanassi School for adolescents with autism, in 2022: President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal stand with (from right) Center for Jewish Impact CEO Sonia Gomes de Mesquita, the writer, and then-education minister Yifat Shasha-Biton

‘Disappearing Bible Campaign’ advocates for comprehensive Bible studies among Israelis - opinion

Bible studies were part of the curriculum until high school matriculation exam in every Israeli state school, but the learning scope and definition as a mandatory subject had not changed until now.

 THEN-MK Yehudah Glick (right) chairs a meeting of an advocacy group encouraging Bible study, at the Knesset, in 2017.

STEM education crucial for preserving Israel’s Start-up Nation status, says expert

Afeka College President Professor Ami Moyal will be a speaker at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference on June 3.

 Ami Moyal

Changing mindset: New program teaches Israeli students Arabic language and culture

The program was founded on the realization that Israelis need to better connect with their neighbors in the region.

 Israeli students at the JCPA inauguration of the "Speak Middle East Program"

Israel cuts 85% of budget for LGBTQ+ tolerance program in schools

Israel saw a record number of 3,309 instances of violence and hate speech directed at members of the LGBTQ+ community in 2022, according to The Aguda’s 2023 report.

 Dozens of protesters gather in front of the Tel Aviv District police station to protest against violent attacks on the LGBTQ+ community in recent weeks.

Academia has become a new battlefield in the Israel-Hamas war - opinion

Jewish students need to feel – especially in current circumstances – that they are not alone.

 PRO-ISRAEL counterprotesters show up at a demonstration by Harvard law students on the National Day of Action, organized by Law Students for a Free Palestine, at Harvard University, in November. As Qatar buys clout in student unions, Israel appears to be surrendering the battle

Displaced Gaza border children receive unique report cards amid war

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 "There's a newfound resolve to defend the nation of Israel and Judaism, and to stand against Hamas and anti-Semitism,” said attendees of an event in Poland

Haredi girls lead the achievements of girls in Israel in mathematics, reading

The results are from the PISA test conducted last year, postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Ultra Orthodox girls go to their haredi school "Mishkenot Da'at" which is located on the premises of the secular "Language and Cultures" school, in Beit Shemesh, on September 8, 2014.