Children

Jewish day school enrollment rising across denominations

One report found that non-Orthodox school enrollment has increased by 3% from 2021 to 2024, while Orthodox schools have seen a 7% increase.

Boys in the hallway at Jewish day school
Joint FIFA and LEGO event for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Kiryat Ata.

Joint FIFA-LEGO childrens' event in Kiryat Ata brings 2026 World Cup experience to Israel

Fire caused from rockets launched from Lebanon, outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 1, 2024

The children of the northern border pay the price of war - opinion

THE MAIN SHANTI HOUSE center in Tel Aviv continues to help down-and-out youngsters rediscover their purpose in life.

For kids’ sake: Shanti House battles the odds to save Israel's abandoned youth


Iran's war crimes: Behind the IRGC's recruitment of 12-year-olds - analysis

The 12-year-olds registering at mosques in Tehran may get the same chance to stop believing if the regime around them collapses.

A member of Iranian militia forces (Basij) attends an anti-Israeli march in Tehran, Iran, January 10, 2025.

How to help children return to the learning routine

A new study reveals how to restart learning and how to return to studying during this period after what we have been through.

A new study reveals how to restart learning and how to return to studying during this period after what we have been through

Beersheba court sentences two caregivers for abuse of toddlers in daycare

Two caregivers in Beersheba were sentenced to prison after being convicted of repeatedly abusing toddlers, with the court stressing the betrayal of trust and lasting harm to the children.

Illustration photo of a toddler kindergarten.

Prehistoric children’s remains show syphilis-like disease spread through ancient Vietnam - study

Researchers have for decades believed that of these diseases, only syphilis could be transmitted congenitally, lending to the assumption that syphilis began with Christopher Columbus’ journeys.

Dr. Melandri Vlok and Ms. Minh Tran conducting radiographic analysis on child skeletons from Man Bac, April 11, 2026.

From survival to learning: How to return children to frameworks the right way

With the reopening of the education system, an educational psychologist explains how we should help children return to routine.

Back to school at Uzi Hitman School in Petah Tikva

The recipe that will change your holiday: Passover pizza kids love

In honor of the spring holiday: The recipe by Miri Shalom, from the Instagram page israeli_kitchen@, for making kosher-for-Passover pizza without hametz - and with all the flavor.

Kosher-for-Passover Pizza.

Editor's Notes: This Passover, Israeli children deserve a future that's more than sirens

Israeli childhood has been knocked off course for years now. First came COVID, then came the October 7, 2023, mega-atrocity by Hamas, and the long war that followed, and now another round with Iran.

Singer Maya Bouskilla and Mor Krigel, the young boy who wrote the UAV song - which became viral amongst Israeli children.

From the drama of the gifted child to national healing and peace - opinion

The most profound expressions of human evil are rarely the products of innate malice, but are instead the tragic harvest of deep emotional suffocation.

A man walks next to a poster with a picture of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, March 22, 2026

‘Risk children’s lives for some extra manpower’: IRGC recruits 12 year olds to fill personnel gaps

“We launched a plan we call ‘For Iran’, which is a registration program for homeland defense fighters,” Nadali told state media. “We set the minimum age at 12 years and above.” 

A SOLDIER from Iran's revolutionary guard helps a child sit on a military display in Baharestan Square to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war during "sacred defence week" in southern Tehran September 23, 2006.

Archaeologists unearth at least five Gaul skeletons buried sitting upright during Paris excavations

Burials such as these are unique, as only about 50 “seated skeletons” have been found across a dozen archaeological sites in Europe.

Gallic skeletons found by archaeologists during excavations of the former garden of the Cordeliers Convent in Paris, France, March 30, 2026.