Education ministry

'Catastrophic event on historic scale': Israel plunges in PISA rankings with worst-ever test scores

Across all three subjects, Israel's 2025 PISA results were the lowest ever recorded for the country and were significantly lower than those recorded in 2018, 2015, and 2012.

Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020.
Education Minister Yoav Kisch at the education system's arranging room at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem, in preparation for the opening of schools in the country tomorrow morning, August 31, 2025.

Education Minister Kisch asks High Court to preserve proportional funding for haredi schools

 High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

Israel teaches students how to vote, but not how to make an informed political choice - opinion

High Court Justice; illustrative.

'Not safe for kids': Food allergy group petitions High Court to stop Kisch school-nurse pilot


Netanyahu visits school in Ramle hit by missile during Iran war as Israel classes start nationwide

The prime minister, alongside Education Minister Yoav Kisch, visited the school and talked with teaching and administrative staff, as well as the students on their first day of class.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Kisch with students from the Benzion Netanyahu School in Ramle.

As schools start in Israel, government pushes for teachers to move up north with NIS 60,000 grant

The grant is intended for teaching staff working in communities up to 9km from the northern border, and the may live up to 30km from the border.

Ofra Erlich teaching at Metula.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school year with AI, financial education at center

Israel’s 2026-2027 school year opens Tuesday with new programs focusing on student resilience and belonging, financial literacy, and artificial intelligence.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school on September 1, 2026, including some 180,000 first-graders.

Israelis rate education system 4 out of 10 as school year opens, new research warns

The current system was described as highly centralized and bureaucratic, arguing that schools and principals lack sufficient authority to respond to the needs of their students and communities.

Young students arrive to the classroom at the opening of the new school year in a school for ultra orthodox jewish boys, in Beit Shemesh, August 28, 2022.

Israel's Project 720 brings Google, Microsoft, Amazon AI solutions to education system - feature

The Education Minister told The Jerusalem Post that current regulations guarantee privacy, while the new AI implementation policy allows only adaptive and scalable solutions.

 An illustrative image of an Israeli school classroom.

A-G warns haredi schools face funding cuts over core curriculum gaps

During the hearing, the justices sharply criticized the state. Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz asked the state's representative: "Under what law or procedure were the funds transferred?"

Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on September 30, 2025.

Why dismantling Israel’s Education Ministry could be the ultimate lifeline for teachers - opinion

On August 2, journalist Lior Dattel reported on a dramatic reform being developed by the Finance Ministry. At the center of the proposal is a fundamental shift in how the education system is managed.

 A SCHOOL classroom in Givatayim is empty during a teachers strike. (Illustrative)

Israeli elections: Ex-mayor of Beit Shemesh Aliza Bloch joins Erdan, Edelstein's right-wing party

Announcing her jump into national politics, the former mayor expressed her ambition to become the next education minister.

Beit Shemesh mayor and Mayoral candidate Aliza Bloch seen during the second round of Municipal Elections, in Beit Shemesh, March 10, 2024.

Rebuilding Northern Israel is not enough. We must make it a place people choose to live

Amid all the attention focused on rebuilding Israel's North, another important change is quietly taking place.

Sigal Moran is CEO of Homeward/Habaita

Police complete HaDerech probe involving Shas MK Haim Biton

The suspected offenses included fraud, breach of trust, obtaining something by fraud, theft or fraudulent misappropriation, false entries in corporate documents, and other offenses.

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.