Back to school

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.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2026|ByAVIHAI CHIIM, YANIR YAGNA

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 photographs show how children learned before modern technology, whiteboards, and even before they had classrooms.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2026|BySHIR PERETS

The children's learning ability has weakened a bit.

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.

AUGUST 31, 2026|ByRAPHAEL BERNARD

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

"The first day of school is always exciting," Haymanot's father Tesfaye Kasau said. "It's a happy day. For us, it's another hard day."

AUGUST 30, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Little enforcement means ultra-Orthodox schools have remained open

Police carry out patrols, but tread lightly when they find a school opened illegally.

NOVEMBER 16, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are taught in school.

MKs meet with local authorities, draft outline for return to school

Heads of local authorities said that the past few months have proven that further autonomy should be provided to local government in handling the situation.

NOVEMBER 4, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL

"We cannot live in fear": French pupils remember murdered teacher

Some 12 million pupils returned to school for the first time since the 47-year-old was slain in broad daylight on the eve of a two-week school holiday.

NOVEMBER 2, 2020ByREUTERS

People gather in front of the Bois d'Aulne college after the attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 17, 2020

Worry as Israel's children return to schools

Two schools out of 5,000 were closed because of high infection rates. One hundred and thirty-four preschools were closed for high infection rates out of 21,000 preschools.

NOVEMBER 1, 2020ByHANNAH BROWN

A teacher instructs students in proper mask wear, as first through fourth graders return to school, November 1, 2020.

Coronavirus: First through fourth graders head back to school today

Synagogues, salons and bed and breakfasts reopen for first time since lockdown

NOVEMBER 1, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

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.

Education Ministry blames Health Ministry's 'indecisiveness’ in reopening

A senior official in the Health Ministry said that his ministry is not prepared to return children in grades one and two to school because of “indecision in the Health Ministry.”

OCTOBER 20, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN