Education Ministry

A high school principal arranges her classroom for the reopening of the school in Jerusalem, February 10 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools

A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.

By Gil Gertel July 26, 2023

Mourners at the funeral of 29-year-old Naeem Marjiyeh and 15-year-old Rami Marjiyeh in the the Catholic Church in the town of Yafa an-Nasariyye. The two were murdered, among three others, in a criminal shooting. June 9, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘Mama, are we going to die soon?’ Arab educators grapple with spiking violence

Lacking state support, three Palestinian citizens of Israel share what parents and schools can do to help children exposed to pervasive gun crime.

By Vera Sajrawi June 20, 2023

The aftermath of a Molotov cocktail attack on a kindergarten for immigrant children in the Shapira neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘Breaking the ghettos’: The struggle to desegregate Tel Aviv’s schools

The city that brands itself a 'liberal haven' is forcing asylum seekers' children into separate, impoverished schools. And the parents are fighting back.

By Ben Reiff January 16, 2022

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Illustrative photo of school children and a teacher in class (Photo by Shutterstock.com)

Education Ministry’s website revamped – without Arabic

The Ministry of Education has promised to add Arabic to its new website ‘within days’ for over a month. Since the Israeli school year began on September 1, the Education Ministry’s official website, which was recently revamped, has failed to provide its new look in Arabic – which is (still) an official language in Israel.…

By Mairav Zonszein October 5, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on April 9, 2013. (photo: State Department photo/ Public Domain)

When ‘buying time’ means one thing: More occupation

The lie about an alleged peace process does not end in Israeli schools or in the minds of Israeli soldiers in the occupation’s army; it is the pillar of international diplomacy, especially that of the United States. That is its true greatness. By Noam Chayat On June 6, exactly 46 years after Israel conquered the…

By +972 Magazine July 6, 2013

Yair Lapid with "Yesh Atid" activists (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills.org)

The one good thing the next government could accomplish

If Yair Lapid’s party takes over the Education Ministry, it could bring an end to the Greater-Israelization of the country’s schools and universities. After 45 years of occupation and no end in sight, it would be better for Israel to have a completely right-wing/ultra-Orthodox government than a right-wing/centrist one with Yair Lapid, Kadima and possible…

By Larry Derfner January 28, 2013

Protest against the boycott Law, Tel Aviv, June 12 2011 (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills)

No, democracy isn’t the right of the majority to squelch dissent

By Naomi Paiss To some, the controversy over the firing of Adar Cohen, the Education Ministry bureaucrat in charge of civics education, may be no more than a footnote in the cultural and political wars roiling Israel. In my professional position, running communications for the New Israel Fund, I might agree. My job requires me…

By +972 Magazine August 22, 2012

National Center for the Preservation of Democracy: Japanese American National Museum Little Tokyo Los Angeles, CA (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/kalavinka)

NYTimes’ due fear for Israeli democracy adds some misconceptions

The New York Times published a laudable, bold editorial this weekend that highlights a number of creeping threats to Israeli democracy. The article is vital for reaching audiences who really care about Israel’s future. After three years of onslaught on Israel’s democratic foundations (which were already deeply flawed), the situation is now urgent. Every day, truly scary signs…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 21, 2012