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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.

 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

 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

 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


Herzog College: Bible study days inspire and connect on campus, online

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes: “Every profession has its annual conference, and the Yemei Iyun B’Tanach is where Tanach teachers come from all over the globe for inspiration and mentorship.”

 Part of the crowd at Herzog College’s Yemei Iyun.

Years of conflict with the teachers should be a learning experience - editorial

Israel's teachers are once again in a struggle for better conditions and are threatening not to open schools on September 1.

 TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

Day of meetings yields no progress towards preventing teacher's strike

The latest negotiations between the Teachers' Union and Finance Ministry will be reconvening tomorrow to find a solution rather than the teachers' going on strike.

 Israeli teachers protest as they demand better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022.

How can Jewish schools be bad?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The Teachers' Union has become a strategic problem for the Jewish state. Their enemy was merit. It still is. 

 YAFFA BEN-DAVID, head of the Teachers’ Union, greets teachers participating in a demonstration in Tel Aviv in May demanding better pay and work conditions.

Teachers Union vs gov't: Finance Min. offers NIS 9,000 starting salary in negotiations

The Teachers Union responded that their demands are far from being met and that the talks are far from over. 

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Israel's post-COVID earthquake has begun with severe shortages - opinion

Israel is currently facing a severe shortage of principals, teachers and social workers

 SOME PEOPLE wear masks, others don’t, at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem, earlier this month. In the post-COVID-19 reality, we will be tasked with addressing the scar tissue that developed over the last two years, says the writer.

Israel's teachers, education crisis: A look at the struggle

“I don’t understand how a teacher making a salary of NIS 8,000 can raise a family, and pay the mortgage and bills when prices are going up for everything."

 TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

Jewish donors: Israel's education system needs you - opinion

The Israeli education system needs help and the current situation is unsustainable.

 YOUNG STUDENTS are welcomed to school on the first day of classes after the holidays, last September.

Educators awarded NIS 120,000 in new prize for humanities teachers

Nechama Weingarten Mintz, Dr. Gadi Prodowski and Ziv Shaham are the first recipients of the new award for distinguished teachers in the field of humanities.

 (L to R) Distinguished Teaching Award winners Dr. Gadi Prodovsky, Ziv Shaham, Nechama Weingarten Mintz

Are Arabs the answer to the teacher crisis?

Israel is at a shortage of teachers that is forcing schools to take drastic measures, but the Jewish schools are still not hiring Arab teachers.

 ARAB-ISRAELI teacher, Nedaa Rabie, poses in her classroom at the Gvanim Junior High School in Kadima in 2013. The Gvanim Junior High School currently employs five Arab teachers and serves as a successful example of the Education Ministry’s program for integrating Arab school teachers in the Jewish

English teachers trained as unofficial Israel ambassadors

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

Twenty-six teachers who volunteered to come to Israel and teach English attended a special workshop of the Israel-is organization.