Tag: Israeli Ministry of Education
Masa Israel Teaching Fellows celebrate 10 years of program
Masa Israel Teaching Fellows (MITF) is celebrating its 10-year milestone with an online ceremony for fellows, alumni, families and organizers on May 23, featuring live video from the Israeli cities where the program currently...
Israeli schools resume full activity
Israel’s education system resumed full activity on Sunday, following a government decision based on low coronavirus transmission rates.
Grades one through 12 returned to in-school learning at full capacity, with no restriction on movement between...
Israel bars anti-Zionist groups from lecturing in schools amid B’Tselem claims of ‘apartheid’
Earlier this month, Israel’s education minister moved to ban B’Tselem from lecturing in Israeli schools after the self-described human-rights group accused the government of being an “apartheid regime.”
“The Ministry of Education under my leadership...
Israeli education minister bans groups maligning country, IDF from schools
Israeli Education Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday issued an order to ban groups that slander the Israeli Defense Forces and call Israel an “apartheid state” from giving talks in schools.
The move came in response...
Israeli Health Ministry calls for teachers to take COVID-19 tests before schools reopen
As Israel prepares to send first- to fourth-grade children back to the classroom, the country’s Health Ministry is calling for some 60,000 public-school teachers nationwide to be tested for COVID-19.
The testing will be carried...
Rivlin, tech leaders meet with Israeli haredim as numbers in industry rise
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with haredim involved in the Israeli high-tech industry on Tuesday in the backdrop of a report noting a 52 percent jump in the number of Torah-observant workers in the field since...
Israeli Treasury, teachers’ unions at odds over extended school year
Israel’s Finance Ministry may dock the salaries of teachers who refuse to teach for an extra nine days this school year, following an Education Ministry decision to extend the school year due to weeks...