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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.
Children studying outdoors in Kfar Hasidim in August, 1925.

KKL-JNF unveils archival photos showcasing Israeli classrooms in honor of new school year

The children's learning ability has weakened a bit.

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

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


President Herzog hosts event for staff children entering first grade

President Herzog and his wife hosted 13 children of staff members ahead of the start of the new school year.

 Michal and President Isaac Herzog with 1st grade children of Beit Hanassi Staff

Former school principal explains the educational challenges amid COVID

According to the US Learning Policy Institute and the NASSP, 42 percent of the principals surveyed this year indicated they were considering leaving their position. It is not hard to understand why.

Dr. Beverly Gribetz with former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat

This week in Jerusalem: Good tidings or spin?

A round-up of city affairs.

MAHANEH YEHUDA: Nightlife or nightmare?

Students in AZ, teachers in CA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future

Starting this fall, students in Arizona will connect with their Southern California teachers and classmates through video, and will gather at a site to be determined.

Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles invested in remote learning technology during the pandemic. In the fall, students located in Arizona will begin to attend Shalhevet classes via video. (Tushar Dwivedi)

Israeli schools may reopen in orange cities for first time - Health Min.

The decision changes previous directives according to the country's "Traffic Light" program, prohibiting schools to reopen in orange cities.

PUPILS OF the Gevim School in Beersheba wear masks designed by British schoolchildren.

Jerusalem neighborhood begs government to allow schools to remain open

The letter, an initiative started by Neve Yaakov's parents-teacher association (PTA), begs Netanyahu to reconsider the recent classification of the neighborhood as "orange"

An ultra-Orthodox woman accompanies her daughter to school, Jerusalem, October 19, 2020

92.6% of Israeli kindergarten teachers vaccinated, recovered from COVID

"Many kindergarten teachers are reporting hostility directed toward them."

Teacher shows children how to wash their hands at her kindergarten in Jerusalem. May 10, 2020

Hacker exposes hundreds of students to porno during Purim event

"The teacher told us it's a hacker working from abroad, but it's pretty obvious that a student did it," one student said.

Anais, a student at the International Bilingual School (EIB), attends her online lessons in her bedroom in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, March 20, 2020.

COVID-19: These are the cities that will reopen kindergartens and schools

Several cities have already announced that they will not be prepared to reopen Monday.

Children begin school in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020 after a lockdown.

Education Ministry report: 1,659 schoolchildren infected with COVID-19

Overall, schools and kindergartens saw lower rates of infection that the general population.

Parents accompany their children to the kindergarten in Tel Aviv as they return to kindergarden on October18, 2020 after being shut down during a national lockdown in a means to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.