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.

|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.

|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.

|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."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Creating stability for students during COVID-19

While new programs implemented by the health and education ministries attempt to create stability in schools during the ongoing pandemic, teachers have their doubts about if it will be enough.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021ByDUDI FATIMER
KICKING OFF the new academic year at Jerusalem’s Pola school, September 1

Should parents help their kids do their homework or not?

Why do our children receive homework, and if we offer help do we actually harm them? A parenting instructor explains how to raise children to be "Independent learners.”

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021ByLIZI PORAT/WALLA!
Boy reluctant to do his homework 370

Grapevine September 10, 2021: Crosswalk brouhaha

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand School which teaches Arab and Jewish students.

5 helpful back-to-school tips from parenting coaches for your kids

Adapting to a new kindergarten is a complex challenge, often accompanied by crying, tantrums and regressive behavior. How can you make it better?

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021ByYIFAT SINAI/WALLA!
Children begin school in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020 after a lockdown.

Herzog lauds education system at opening of new school year

“We have a wonderful education system,” said Herzog as he lauded pre-school principals and their assistants for preparing the youngsters in their care for their first day in school.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli president Isaac Herzog and his wife visit first graders at the Inbalim school in Modi'in Maccabim Reut on the first day of the new academic year, on September 1, 2021

An open letter from President Isaac Herzog to Israel’s teachers

From the president's desk, a letter to teachers and students addressing the new school year amid the challenge of surging COVID-19 cases.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021ByISAAC HERZOG
A young Isaac Herzog.

Israeli schools open next week - your last-minute questions answered

With schools set to open next week, you may have many questions. Here are some answers.

AUGUST 26, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Schools reopen after third national coronavirus lockdown, Feb. 11, 2020

Gov't must announce school reopening decision sooner rather than later - editorial

Whatever the government decides to do regarding school reopenings, it must let everyone know ahead of time.

AUGUST 21, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Fifth grade students returned today to school at the Alomot elementary school in Efrat, where religious and secular students study together. Children in middle school went back to school today following a few weeks of learning from home. February 21, 2021.

Israeli children have sat at home for too long, experts warn

The coronavirus cabinet will convene on Sunday to discuss the outline for children to return to classrooms as the disease rages.

AUGUST 19, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
A schoolgirl gets a corona test at the Meuchedet Medical Center in Jerusalem on July 22.

33% of haredi kids from Modi’in Illit had COVID - serological test results

An earlier study showed that in general, 18% of haredi children in Israel had the virus.

AUGUST 10, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A Magen David Adom (MDA) worker taking a serological tests for COVID-19 from an ultra-Orthodox child in the ultra-Orthodox town of Kiryat Ye’arim (Telz-Stone), outside Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.