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Finance Ministry, Teachers Union reach agreement in wake of teacher strikes

In addition, the clause published in the May 4 draft proposal that would have halted rank promotions for four months has been removed.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Yaffa Ben-David, Secretary-general of the Teachers Union.
An empty classroom in a school in Givatayim amid the teachers' strike. May 6, 2025.

Court rules: Teachers who took sick leave as protest must return to work

Some tens of thousands of teachers have been on a “sick day” strike since the start of the week.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Hebrew Ulpan teachers across Israel hold strike over low salaries

Hundreds of Ulpan teachers across Israel announced on Sunday morning that they will use their sick days and not come in to teach.

|ByWALLA!
ROBERT McKEE: It’s categorically unfair to compare works of art, whether it be a screenplay or a novel or a play

Screenwriting guru Robert McKee to teach screenwriting seminars in Tel Aviv

Rober McKee, screenwriting guru, is coming to Tel Aviv for the first time in 16 years to teach a screenwriting seminar for the last time.

|ByLAURI DONAHUE

English teachers trained as unofficial Israel ambassadors

The COVID pandemic created a need for new goodwill ambassadors who could travel.

MARCH 21, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Twenty-six teachers who volunteered to come to Israel and teach English attended a special workshop of the Israel-is organization.

Students from Israel, Ben-Gurion's hometown in Poland do joint project

Despite the great distance between the two schools, they still teamed up to teach students about leadership inspired by the work of Israel's first prime minister.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Knesset exhibit: David Ben-Gurion 1954

Want good teachers? Turn them into entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019ByAMNON ELDAR
Students listen to teacher (illustrative)

Political scientist Yaron Ezrahi dies at 78

Ezrahi was known for his work on relations between modern science, the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the uses of political science and authority.

JANUARY 30, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
YARON EZRAHI

Teachers' Union calls for nationwide strike Wednesday

The strike will affect kindergartens as well as elementary through high schools throughout the country.

DECEMBER 25, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
High school students spend time together after class.

Teachers banned from administering standardized tests until further notice

The teachers are asking for an immediate increase in their starting monthly salary to NIS 8,000 and raises of NIS 1,000 to 2,000 per month for senior teachers.

DECEMBER 6, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI, SARAH LEVI
Classroom

Secondary schools to strike Sunday after student knocks teacher unconscious

The student in Tel Sheva struck the teacher in the head with a metal rod.

NOVEMBER 30, 2017BySARAH LEVI
High school students spend time together after class.

‘Not everyone should be able to become a teacher’

Union head talks to the ‘Post’ ahead of new school year.

AUGUST 29, 2017BySARAH LEVI
Teacher with students

TALMA project brings US educators to teach underprivileged kids English

For the Israeli teachers, the program provides the opportunity to co-teach and learn from foreign educators.

JULY 12, 2016ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
100 TEACHERS from English speaking countries are participating in this summer’s TALMA program teaching English as a Second Language to underprivileged elementary school pupils.

NGO slams Education Ministry move to have fewer Arabs study to be teachers

The Education Ministry is trying solve the problem of a surplus of Arab Israeli teachers by having less Arabs study to be teachers.

JULY 8, 2016ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Students in a classroom [Illustrative]