Back to school

5 games that will bring back children's math knowledge before returning to school

After two months of plenty of screens, the pool, and trips, it is important to clear the blockages and rewire the fast retrieval pathways in the memory.

The children's learning ability has weakened a bit.
Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.

Students encouraged to bring red balloons to first day of school for missing child Haymanot Kasau

A DAYCARE CENTER in Jerusalem. [Illustrative photo]

Home Front Command eases restrictions, allowing schools to open in select areas

Homemade

When the schnitzel waits at the door: The solution that frees up precious time for parents


COVID-19: Israeli schools open this morning - but not in red cities

Coronavirus czar clashed with education minister late into the night * 2.4 million students return to class * 14 people died on Monday

Israeli students wearing protective face masks in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in a school in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2020

Rivlin: We start a different kind of school year this extraordinary year

The coronavirus has brought with it challenges and changes. But by pulling together, we can overcome them.

Israeli kids wearing school bags ahead of the first day of school and kindergarten outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2020, The Israeli secular state education system will open tomorrow.

Arab-Israelis prefer to keep schools closed amid coronavirus spike

Parents and local authorities would prefer not to open schools in red zones.

Young female students at a dancing lesson with Israeli teacher Neria Cohen, at the Arab private school, Promise, in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, on May 6, 2018.

It's smart to take COVID precautions as children head back to school

We all need to internalize that life cannot go back to pre-corona normal. That means that parents need to regulate what their children do and who they see outside of the classroom.

Israeli children in second grade (7 - 8 years old) using computers in a class room during a lesson at the "Janusz Korczak" school  in Jerusalem. May 17, 2011.

School year to open on Tuesday after court rules against teacher’s strike

The Education Ministry and the Teachers’ Union agreed to continue discussions.

Children are returning to school in Israel amid the coronavirus pandemic. August 24, 2020.

At-risk families fear the return to school

Most of the children and teenagers who are infected with the virus have no symptoms or only mild symptoms, but studies show they can infect others.

Photo of the Haddad family

Israeli parents to pay only half of school fees for upcoming year

The executive director of the Israel National Council for the Child called the parental payments a "kind of regressive education tax imposed on parents in Israel."

A girl hugs her mother before entering her elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus disease.

Education Ministry plan needs 7,500 teachers, ‘Corona Czar’ not consulted

To fully open the year, 50,000 additional teachers will be needed.

Back to school (illustrative)

In times of uncertainty, financial goals should be long term

If you are worried about a large market drop, it may mean that you have an incorrect asset-allocation.

College graduation during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in California

School system hard pressed as 'unfit' principals remain on the job

Local parents kept their children from attending the first day of school, claiming they "won't allow [their] children to be used as guinea pigs for the ministry of education

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