Posts Tagged: Israel Education
Class in Session: Five Questions for Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - In April, Israel’s educational system, which is essentially charged with shaping the country’s future, was handed over to Member of Knesset Naftali Bennett. The...
Haredim and Bedouin: A Tale of Two Communities Transformed by Vocational Education
JNS.org - Low enlistment rates in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). High rates of poverty. Communal resistance to traditional schooling. Difficulty finding employment or...
Israeli Officials Assure Residents of War-Weary Southern Israel at Start of School Year
On Monday, September 1, schools across Israel opened for the new the school year, as 2,105,394 children took their places in the classroom - merely...
University of New Mexico Graduate Students Rescind Israel Divestment Measure
JNS.org - The University of New Mexico (UNM) Graduate & Professional Student Association on Saturday rescinded an Israel divestment resolution that it had passed...
UAE Newspaper Clams Israeli Schools Teach Kids to Murder Non-Jews (UPDATE)
Emirati News writes about a supposed investigation into Israeli schools and how they teach kids to kill Arabs as part of the curriculum. According to this...
Jewish Education Can Make Us the ‘Choosing People’
JNS.org - I'll never forget the words of my Hebrew school teacher: "While we may have once been the Chosen People, now we are the...
Netanyahu Says Israel’s Success is Due to Focus on ‘Values and Excellence’
Speaking two days before the opening of the country's school year at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Technoda Program Cultivates Future Israeli Scientists
JNS.org - On the one hand, Givat Olga is an underprivileged neighborhood in the Israeli city of Hadera with about 12,000 people, primarily immigrants...
Israeli Minister Lapid Supports Dropping Standardized Tests
Ynet - "We have no intention of stopping here. The cancellation of the standardized tests is a prelude to the larger move of dramatically reducing (the...
Israeli Education Minister Plans to Eliminate Standardized Tests
Ynet - Education Minister Shai Piron announced the cancellation of national standardized tests (NST) in the upcoming school year. The reason given for the decision was that the...
Bay Area Initiative Shows Strides in Integrating Israel Education into Curriculums
JNS.org - "In a beautiful valley, among vineyards and fields, there stood a tower with five floors. Who lived in the tower? On the...
‘Start-up Nation’ Israel to Help Jewish Day Schools Go from Textbooks to Tablets?
JNS.org - As American and Israeli schools shift from textbooks to tablets, entrepreneurs from the "start-up nation" hope they can bank on the trend. In June,...
Jewish Schools in Israel to Hire 500 Arab Teachers Over Next Five Years
About 500 Arab teachers will be hired to teach in Jewish schools over the next five years, Kol Yisrael Israeli government radio reported Tuesday morning. The...
New Online Course at Hebrew University Attracts Students from Lebanon, Iran and Saudi Arabia
A new online course offered by Hebrew University is bringing the world together a synapse at a time, NoCamels.com reports. The school has started teaching a...
