Ministry of Education

Education Ministry establishes guidelines guaranteeing students' rights to lay tefillin in schools

The directive aimed to establish clear, uniform rules and provide school principals with a guided framework to facilitate the policy's implementation throughout the public school system.

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
A man puts on a tefillin in Washington Square Park in Manhattan on June 19, 2026 in New York City. Tefillin are a Jewish traditional ritual object, believed to be an approximately 2000 year old tradition.
Palestinians, Israelis and politicians attend a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, organized by peace groups and held amid far-right threats against participants, on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day in Tel Aviv, April 20, 2026.

Court overturns Education Ministry ban on educational pro-peace program

Since the closure imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip at the start of the Gaza War, the program has been operated by Israeli facilitators only, according to the ruling.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Children return to school following the ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah at Gamla Primary School in Katsrin, Golan Heights, April 19, 2026.

Israel's education system is failing its kids - editorial

Only 3% of ninth-grade students who took Israel’s national science exam reached the high standard set by the Education Ministry. More than half were reportedly at a low or medium-low.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Damage after an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv.

Schools to move to remote learning on Monday after shutdown amid Iranian missile strikes

The situation will be reassessed during the Purim holiday on Tuesday and Wednesday in accordance with ongoing security evaluations, the Education Ministry said.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Teachers on personal contracts program yields zero results

Israel’s education system faces a deepening teacher shortage as a program to hire skilled teachers on personal contracts stalls due to union opposition and bureaucratic delays.

JANUARY 27, 2025ByIDAN ERETZ/GLOBES/TNS
An illustrative image of a class in an elementary school.

Knesset passes law allowing funding cuts for schools supporting terror acts

New law grants Israel's education ministry power to defund terror-supportive schools and fire teachers.

NOVEMBER 5, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on April 15, 2024

Dept. of Education Office of Civil Rights releases guidance on discrimination regulations

The new guidance comes in light of an uptick in Title VI complaints.

MAY 7, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
House Education and The Workforce Committee hearing titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, December 5, 2023.

Holocaust education in Israeli high schools becomes non-mandatory following Oct. 7

The Education Ministry clarified that this decision would currently only be valid for the 2024 school year if it were to come to fruition.

JANUARY 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

How do government ministries perform during war? - opinion

A survey conducted by The Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at Reichman University examines how the public views the government’s performance during the war

DECEMBER 6, 2023BySHAHAF ZAMIR
THE MINISTRY of Defense building in Tel Aviv