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Israel’s PISA collapse exposes a failing education system threatening its future - opinion

The figure that should truly alarm Israel is that the 2025 collapse is occurring not at the margins of the education system, but at its core. What should be done?

View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025.
MK Tally Gotliv attends a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025.

The Likud primary: Trolling as a way to gain support – opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah attend the Likud Party's election campaign opening event in Jerusalem, Jan 21, 2020.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has an insurance policy - it's called Israel's opposition – opinion

A photo shows a view of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquarters in Paris on September 22, 2025

Your Taxes: How to live longer according to the OECD


Your Taxes: OECD studies ‘tax morale’

The analysis is based on answers to the question “Do you justify cheating on taxes if you have the chance?”

Approximately 170,000 Americans live in Israel. In total, more than one million U.S. citizens and green card holders – who both live overseas and own more than 10% of a foreign corporation – faced the prospect of paying the tax.

Study: Israeli university graduates higher earners than college graduates

University of Haifa.

Exclusive: Former Israeli officials helping Rwanda join OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is the 36-member club of the world’s most developed economies.

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame speaks as he delivers a joint statement with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem July 10, 2017

Your Taxes: Slip slidin' away

The report says that tax administrations may sometimes be justified in using hindsight to increase a tax assessment if intangible assets (intellectual property) are shifted offshore.

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Your Taxes: Roadblock on the superhighway

We may be witnessing a renewed tax dispute between the US and UK among others. Are we back to the Boston Tea Party – no taxation without physical (not just digital) representation?

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Israel sees improvement by poor students, but still lags behind OECD

According to the report, the majority of students who perform poorly in The Program for International Student Assessment come from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Students sit in a library at the Ariel University Center in the West Bank settlement of Ariel

OECD warns on Israel's high risk real estate

"The real estate sector risk is high, and the banks' involvement in the sector continues to be very deep," OECD economists write.

In Beit Shemesh, overlooking the valley from the northeast, construction of 14,000 planned housing units is now in full swing

OECD projects continued growth for Israel in 2017-18

Kahlon signs multilateral convention to combat tax avoidance.

FINANCE MINISTER Moshe Kahlon and his counterparts smile at the OECD Ministerial Council meeting in Paris yesterday

The 5776 mirror: Looking back over the past Jewish year

As we look back over the past Jewish year, Israel has room for much optimism and hope – and a dark cloud or two.

Painting by Avi Katz

Bennett to OECD education ministers: We can transform the world

The conference in Jerusalem brought together some 30 education ministers and delegations from around the world.

EDUCATION MINISTER Naftali Bennett speaks at the OECD global summit in Jerusalem yesterday as President Reuven Rivlin looks on.