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Empty classroom at Cramim school, Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, October 21 2020

'Prepare to learn remotely': Schools issue messages that spark panic

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

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

By Darcie Grunblatt

The education minister Yoav Kish

Israel seeks after-school programs for autistic youth amid manpower shortage

IRAQ AL-SHABAAB SCHOOL in Umm el-Fahm has been classified as one of the lowest-performing ‘red’ elementary schools in the country.

For Arab schools in Israel, students struggle to master fundamental skills

By JUDITH SEGALOFF

Education Minister Yoav Kisch seen at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2023

Education Minister Kisch backs down, to award Israel Prize this year

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a discussion on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 12, 2024.

High Court tells gov't to provide justifications to cancel Israel Prize

By MATAN WASSERMAN

A JEWISH PEOPLE Policy Institute survey conducted six weeks into the war reveals that a significant majority of haredim believe that nothing needs to changes.

Educating the ultra-Orthodox: Release the shackles

By Romy Leibler/The Media Line

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's Independence Day, on April 26, 2023.

Cancelling Israel Prize categories was a tone-deaf decision

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Jewish youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 11, 2018.

Israel's Education Ministry announces renewal of summer trips to Poland

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

School of misplaced Gaza border children opens in Eilat

Displaced Gaza border children finally start the school year in Eilat

By Sivan Rahav Meir

New school within a week

How can you be more attentive to your kid as school returns to normal?

By Michal Ben Ray

Schools reopen after third national coronavirus lockdown, Feb. 11, 2020

Special-needs children among evacuees are neglected, Knesset panels are told

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Civics teacher arrested, remand extended for supporting Hamas

By ALON HOCHMON

Soldiers in the Education and Youth Corps work with children displaced from their homes and communities by the October 7 massacre.

IDF's education corps helps out with systems for evacuees

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Members from Israel's Tourism Ministry, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Justice Ministry, Police and other government and local leaders convened a forum to address the spike in anti-Christian attacks.

Gov't could free up over NIS 2.5 billion by closing redundant ministries

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

A school is seen closed in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood amid the ongoing war with Hamas, on October 15, 2023.

Israel's Education Ministry working for stable return to schools amid war

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Tel Aviv school principal suspected of having intimate relations with minors

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Thousands of haredi students are studying core curriculum subjects online.

Gov't to transfer hundreds of millions in funds for haredi education

By ARIELLA MARSDEN