Education ministry

Tainted views, distorted teaching: Should Haaretz be banned from Israeli high schools? - opinion

Education Minister Yoav Kisch requested a professional oversight unit to review complaints that highly critical Haaretz content has been included in high school exams.

A "Haaretz" newspaper being read in the middle of Times Square.
Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik a House committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on, December 1, 2025.

Knesset legal advisor demands Finance Ministry probe into unauthorized fund transfers

Supreme court justice Yael Willner arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on a petition against the Finance Committee’s decision to transfer funds to Ultra-Orthodox educational institutions, January 8, 2026.

High Court to Israeli gov't: Disclose details on ultra-Orthodox school funding within 10 days

Opposition head Yair Lapid arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court on a petition against the transfer of funds to ultra-Orthodox educational institutions, January 8, 2026

Millions transferred to haredi schools without Knesset approval, state admits to court


'We have to appeal to Jews': Israeli cabinet clashes over Arab funds

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distal Atbaryan insisted that the government "needs to address the Jewish base [of supporters]."

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem last month.

A look at the religious Zionist education in Jerusalem

The Religious Zionist community makes up about 23% (or 130,000) of the city’s total Jewish residents, and their children have approximately 82 state-run religious elementary and high schools.

 HARTMAN STUDENTS, hard at work.

High Court strikes decision to shorten school day for autistic kids

The Education Ministry published a temporary order to shorten the school days of autistic school children by 45 minutes due to a staff shortage, but the High Court has stopped it.

A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

Israeli Ulpan teachers get new wage deal

The new wage deal aims to boost aliyah integration and comes after teachers protested low salaries, which disrupted Hebrew language courses.

 From left: Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Teachers' Union head Yaffa Ben-David, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer.

Ancient 'magic mirror' discovered in northern Israel by youth leader

Magic mirrors were used to protect against the Evil Eye in ancient times.

 Youth leader Aviv Weizman holding the magic mirror plaque she discovered at Usha

Education Ministry director-general resigns over judicial reform rift

The director-general stressed that he "never belonged to one side or the other" and was not choosing a side with his decision.

Director-general of the Education Ministry, Asaf Tzalel, attends a Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. March 22, 2023.

Israel's first virtual school to begin teaching in 2023-2024 year

The virtual program will be available for free and is meant to give students the opportunity to receive complementary and personalized lessons.

 A girl learning on her computer (illustrative).

What do gifted children need? Future Scientists Center offers answers

The Maimonides Fund’s Future Scientists Center and the Education Ministry’s Division for Gifted and Outstanding Students, organized a groundbreaking conference last week.

 Professor Camilla P. Benbow Dean of the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University_

Pensioners and volunteers won’t save education - opinion

The system is unable to support its teachers to cope with the cost of living, and with the growing challenges in educating Israeli children.

 ISRAELI TEACHERS from different groups of society take part in the Village Way annual conference last October

Children of asylum seekers to be integrated into Tel Aviv schools

96 refugee children will be part of a pilot scheme to test whether their integration into the wider education system would be beneficial.

 SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.