Back to school

New school, new home: Young olim begin the school year in Israel

From learning Hebrew to making new friends, five young olim share the excitement and nerves of finding their place in an Israeli classroom.

New olim at Ben Gurion Airport greeting first graders
Nearly three million Israeli students begin school on September 1, 2026, including some 180,000 first-graders.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school year with AI, financial education at center

Children studying outdoors in Kfar Hasidim in August, 1925.

KKL-JNF unveils archival photos showcasing Israeli classrooms in honor of new school year

The children's learning ability has weakened a bit.

5 games that will bring back children's math knowledge before returning to school


Should a school uniform be compulsory? - opinion

There has been extensive research into the pros and cons of school uniforms. The most persuasive argument against, as far as I’m concerned, is that children should be free to express themselves.

 TWO YOUNG Spanish girls walk hand in hand to school.

14 Days: Schools reopen

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets schoolchildren on the first day of the Israeli school year, September 1, 2022.

Back to school: This is how to prepare yourself (and your child)

As the school year starts psychologist Ayal Cohen explains how to handle any difficulties and why the real preparation is actually the parents', not the kids’.

 Israeli kids wearing school bags.

Back to school in Israel: 2.5 million children enter their new classrooms

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman visited educational institutions close to the Gaza Strip in honor of the start of the new school year.

 Celebrations for the start of the new school year at Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2022

The answer to school strikes is baseball - opinion

In baseball, what often happens is that with arbitration looming, the two sides get close enough to come to an agreement, and arbitration is avoided altogether.

 YAFFA BEN DAVID, head of the Teachers Union, leaves the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem after negotiations, yesterday.

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.

 THE LOCKED gate of a Jerusalem school. Will it open up next week?

Israel's Teachers Union's acts are completely unjustified - opinion

It remains to be seen whether an agreement between the teachers unions and the Finance Ministry, with the Education Ministry attempting at mediation, will be reached before September 1.

 TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

Israel's teaching crisis is a political hot potato. Who will be burned? - analysis

If the issue is not resolved by September 1 and students remain at home, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman could pay a very heavy price.

 Yaffa Ben David, the secretary general of the Teachers Union speaks at a conference of the Union of Local Authorities ahead of the opening of the school year in Ganei Tikva, August 18, 2022.

Israel severely undervalues teachers - opinion

In the economics model of funding for guns vs funding for butter, it’s understandable what lies on the top of Israel’s financial agenda. 

 TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week. Their signs say that they’re fighting for their rights and that poor working conditions have resulted in fewer teachers.

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

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at a cabinet meeting on 24/07/2022.