Secondary School Teachers Organization

Five day school week: Teachers' Union reaches agreement with gov't after weeks of negotiations

The ministries and the union also increased the number of annual early retirees from 320 to 350, citing "high demand from teachers wishing to retire early due to burnout."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A SCHOOL classroom in Givatayim is empty during a teachers strike last week. As long as teachers are denied the stability, recognition, and respect they deserve, we will keep losing the essential individuals who prop up the backbone of society, the writer argues.

Civics teacher arrested, remand extended for supporting Hamas

Dr. Meir Baruchin accused IDF soldiers of raping Palestinian women and allegedly justified the rape of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. 

|ByALON HACHMON
High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

High school teachers, Finance Ministry reach deal after students strike

Among other things, the new agreement allows for teachers to be paid advances on their pay raise while the parties continue to iron out the fine details.

|ByARIELLA MARSDEN
High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

Israeli high schoolers to strike amid teachers dispute with government

The Secondary Schools Teachers Organization was expected to lift the sanctions when the new school year began after it came to agreements with the Finance Ministry at the last second.

|ByARIELLA MARSDEN

Israel averts high school strikes in 'phenomenal' deal with teachers

The agreements, which the Secondary School Teachers' Association described as a "phenomenal achievement," will be detailed in due course, it said.

AUGUST 31, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli students arrive to school, at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020

Gov't, teachers fail to agree, high schools teachers may strike

The Education Ministry and Teachers Association agreed on a NIS 2,000 raise for teachers but still need to agree on other issues.

AUGUST 31, 2023ByTROY O. FRITZHAND
View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some Municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023.

Israel Teachers' Union announces nationwide strike for April 30

This decision, according to the union, came after the finance and education ministries did not meet their requirements after a year of "fruitless negotiations."

APRIL 28, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, URI SELA/WALLA
A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Municipalities, high school teachers strike over 'damaging' national budget

Government meets today to approve national budget for 2023-2024

FEBRUARY 22, 2023ByELIAV BREUER, ZACHY HENNESSEY
ONE CHALLENGE: The ongoing classroom shortage. Pictured: At a Beit Hakerem school.

Israel's teacher strike will not include middle school - Ed. Ministry

The chairman of the teachers' organization announced on Friday that on Sunday there will be a one-day warning strike in Israeli high schools.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

Will schools open on time? Likely not - opinion

It is immoral for teachers to strike, except in very rare situations. The right thing to do in the current constellation is for the teachers to sign a short-term agreement.

AUGUST 29, 2022BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
EDUCATION MINISTER Yifat Shasha-Biton visits a classroom last year. Will this school year open on time?

Israel's school year is about to start and everyone is clueless

EDUCATION AFFAIRS: In quiet classrooms around the country, teachers are hanging decorations, organizing lessons and preparing a year’s worth of daily education.

AUGUST 26, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
THE LOCKED gate of a Jerusalem school. Will it open up next week?

Israel's Teachers Union's acts are completely unjustified - opinion

It remains to be seen whether an agreement between the teachers unions and the Finance Ministry, with the Education Ministry attempting at mediation, will be reached before September 1.

AUGUST 26, 2022ByRUTHIE BLUM
TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

High school teachers threaten to join back-to-school strike

The Secondary School Teachers' Organization will join the September 1 teachers’ strike unless the Finance Ministry resolves negotiations swiftly.

AUGUST 22, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
NEW TEACHERS run a summer school, located at Alonei Yitzhak in the North, as part of the training they receive from Hotam.

New Jersey student assigned Hitler project, teacher placed on admin. leave

In the project, the girl listed Hitler's accomplishments and dressed up as him for the presentation.

JULY 15, 2021ByARIELLA MARSDEN
A hallway stands empty during a news conference at New Bridges Elementary School, ahead of schools reopening, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York, US, August 19, 2020.