A study was released on Sunday by the Jerusalem based Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, saying that education gaps in Israel were, in the last decade, the highest in the Western world.
Taub Center executive-director Professor Dan Ben-David said that the Israeli school system’s failure to grant children tools to be used in [...]
In an action this week Hezbollah proved that indeed they are not only anti-Zionist but altogether anti-Jewish – of course given this powerful terror organization’s track record of Holocaust denial, this should not come as such a shock.
The Hezbollah-owned television station, Al-Manar, condemned the distribution of a textbook in an English language school in Lebanon, [...]
Mazal Tov to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It has been ranked among the world’s top 100 institutes of higher education, out of a complete list of 500. The annual ranking by the Centre for World Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai’s Jao Tong University, HU has risen one place since [...]
This was to be expected. We sort of predicted this a month ago when Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar decided to take Nakba studies out of the national curriculum. “Nakba” studies are, essentially, a curriculum that identifies the creation of the State of Israel as an international “catastrophe.” We intimated that this approach wouldn’t really accomplish [...]
THIS was just sent to me and I haven’t heard anything about it yet. Sounds like a good cause:
On June 18th 2009 a group of fifteen young Israelis and Palestinians will come together in Tel Aviv to show that music can overcome conflict by creating a unique track and video.
The project is a collaboration [...]
Israel is undergoing Russiafication says Lily Galili in HaAretz (this phrase only appears in the Hebrew version of the article).
What Lily means to say is that veteran Israelis increasingly share the immigrants’ negative views of the police. In other words, Russian immigrants are more suspicious of the police, and are more likely to feel persecuted [...]
Like many millions around the globe, I, too, watched the inauguration ceremony yesterday. Everyone wants to see history in the making, and this was certainly one of those moments.
First of all, I enjoyed the artistic portion of the ceremony. Aretha Franklin’s hat was cute and very amusing. The musical piece by Johan Williams was magnificent [...]
This morning I read a small news report in a local magazine that I think should get much more attention.
The magazine piece tells of an Adolescence Clinic in Tel Aviv that serves youth in the ages of 12 to 18, for free, without informing their parents (if the teens so desire). As a teen, you [...]
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The Faculty of the Arts in Tel Aviv University is holding an annual fringe festival at the beginning of the academic year. It’s been running this week since Sunday, and today (Thursday) is the last day of the festival, titled Small Bama (Small Stage).
The festival is mainly about short student plays, but you can also [...]
Even though this expensive bridge was inaugurated in June on the same week as the gay pride parade in Jerusalem, the massive chords were emanating a different kind of pink last night.
The reason for such a drastic makeover, which could easily offend the local Jewish Orthodox community, is the commencement of this year’s Breast Cancer [...]
We’ve been accustomed to university strikes here in Israel. There is always a reason — be it the same reason that never gets solved, or a new reason that pops out just when you think that nothing’s gonna happen this time.
This past year we’ve seen a long strike arranged by the senior staff of Israel’s [...]
For the first time (that I’m aware of) a students’ simulation of regional peace talks is going to take place in Israel.
Between the 17th and 22th of August, Tel Aviv University will host the 2008 Middle East Students Conference — an initiative of the “Stand With Us” fellowship program. Participants are invited from all over [...]
26,000 Haredi children will reach the age of 18 without knowing basic mathematics, civics, or any English at all.
Up until now, the 260 Haredi Yeshivas that did not teach the Core Curriculum to their children were deemed inappropriate to receive governmental funding. They received such funding anyway, contra legem. But since the matter had been [...]
The New Horizon (Ofek Ha’dash) plan, which plans to reform bureaucratic methods of work in elementary and secondary schools across the country, has been finally signed today, set to be implemented by September in time for the next school year. Its estimated cost exceeds 5.5 billion shekels.
Minister of Education, Prof. Yuli Tamir is touring to [...]
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