Higher education

Israel’s education policies compromise its qualitative edge - opinion

In order to preserve Israel’s qualitative edge, its education system must excel at every level.

Education Minister Yoav Kisch at the education system's arranging room at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem, in preparation for the opening of schools in the country tomorrow morning, August 31, 2025.
Students at Ben Gurion University, in Beer Sheba. November 04, 2025.

Academic institutions switch to remote learning, cancel all non-mandatory activity amid Iran war

YITZIK CROMBIE, the CEO of Israeli start-up Bizmax, poses on November 21 2018 at the company's offices in Jerusalem, the first of its kind for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.

EU appoints first ever haredi to National Team of Higher Education Reform Experts

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Olim navigate studying in Israel


This woman revolutionized Israel’s education system - here’s how

Long before COVID, Yaffa Zilbershats was promoting the concept of remote digital learning in order to make higher education accessible to all segments of the population.

 ZILBERSHATS WANTS Israel to become ‘a brain gain country.’

Chinese university to open campus in Petah Tikva

A new Chinese campus will be an independent Israeli campus of the University of International Business and Economics, a prestigious school whose base is in Beijing.

ISRAEL-UIBE Campus

High Court rules gender separate higher ed. courses legal

Court says however that women must be allowed to teach any class, male or female

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths study religious texts at a synagogue in Jerusalem April 7, 2011.

Israel's periphery treated to crowdfunding campaign for scholarships

The crowdfunding campaign is especially needed now, due to two years without a state budget and the coronavirus pandemic preventing fundraisers from being held.

Students as part of the ISEF

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Higher Education

Could Israelis take fewer matriculation exams to graduate school?

Almost all high school graduates in Israel have taken the Bagrut exams, but such tests cause students to memorize information at the expense of in-depth learning.

Israeli students arrive to school, at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020.

Arab students studying engineering & computer science doubled in 5 years

In addition, the number of female Arab students studying in these fields have tripled.

Tel Aviv University campus

How the opening of the Raphael Recanati International School is different this year

We will soon be opening the new academic year at IDC Herzliya and in the context of the coronavirus, we are preparing for an unconventional semester ahead.

Jonathan Davis, VP IDC Herzliya, Head of the RRIS

Arab students twice as likely to quit studies amid coronavirus crisis

Arab students already face significant disadvantages compared to their Jewish counterparts, but the coronavirus has further exacerbated these.

JEWISH AND Arab students mingle on the Mount Scopus campus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University

Bracing for long distance learning in Israeli higher learning institutes

EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS: Institutions of higher learning and students are bracing for another semester of socially distanced intercourse.

Scenes like this at Tel Aviv Univerity last year will be replaced by Zoom screens