Yoav Kisch

Netanyahu's new list: Eli Cohen wins top slot in tense Likud primaries

Amir Ohana, Yariv Levin, Miri Regev, and Ofir Katz round out Likud's new top five • May Golan, Gila Gamliel, Idit Silman, and Avi Dichter among lawmakers expected to drop out of Knesset

|ByKESHET NEEV
Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen attends a Likud party conference ahead of the party’s primary elections in the northern city of Haifa, August 4, 2026.
Education Minister Yoav Kisch, August 31, 2025.

The best person for the role - comment

In delegating ministerial portfolios, the prime minister should forget about jobs for the boys and appoint the most suitable people from those who received the most votes in the primaries.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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.

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
ADHD is currently considered one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in the world

Within just 5 years: ADHD drug consumption in Israel has doubled

A new study by the Ministry of Health reveals a sharp spike in the consumption of ADHD medications alongside a dramatic shift in the types of drugs prescribed in Israel.

|ByAVICHAY CHAIM

'Detached from Israel, Zionism': National Library swaps logo amid public fury

The library announced the change to its logo on Wednesday from the original, which featured a minimalist rendition of a book in the colors of the Israeli flag.

OCTOBER 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel’s main reading room. (© Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect)

Back to school in pictures: Israel's prominent figures go to class

Israel's students and their parents and leaders all went back to school on Friday, kicking off the 2023-2024 school year.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Parents prepare their child for the first day of school in Israel, on September 1, 2023.

Israeli minister aims to oust Yad Vashem Holocaust museum chair

Education Minister Yoav Kisch has accused the Yad Vashem Chairman of allowing unauthorized parties to vote at board meetings.

AUGUST 31, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference on June 5, 2023.

2.5 million Israeli students return to school after teachers' strike averted

Teachers' salaries will be raised by NIS 2,000 a month and an additional 2,000 teachers are being recruited to help fill the nationwide shortage.

AUGUST 30, 2023ByTROY O. FRITZHAND, MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Education Min. faces protests after curriculum includes judicial reform

Protest groups accused the Education Ministry of including anti-liberal content and promotion of judicial reform in educational curricula.

AUGUST 28, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Israeli protest against Education Minister Yoav Kisch outside a conference at Tel Aviv University, on August 28, 2023.

This man can save Israel from disaster – if he acts now - opinion

Israel's education system is set to collapse. Only Education Minister Yoav Kisch can save it. If not, we can see the country fall behind and sink even more.

AUGUST 28, 2023ByTOMER SAMARKANDI
EDUCATION MINISTER Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee, earlier this month.

New Education Min. program teaches kids tolerance, conflict management

The new program, coming at a time of heightened social divisions in Israel, is per the directive of Education Minister Yoav Kisch to make Israel's schools have a culture of tolerance.

AUGUST 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
FIRST-GRADE students walk to a school in Tel Aviv, on the first day of classes, last September 1. How does one promote social cohesion when children are currently educated in completely separate streams?

Education Ministry bans Israeli-Palestinian parents group from schools

The ban was following a rule change by Education Minister Yoav Kisch that prohibits educational programming that slanders the IDF or soldiers.

AUGUST 2, 2023ByTROY O. FRITZHAND
A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

Israel's first virtual school to begin teaching in 2023-2024 year

The virtual program will be available for free and is meant to give students the opportunity to receive complementary and personalized lessons.

JULY 2, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A girl learning on her computer (illustrative).

Israeli students in severe decline in reading literacy - int'l report

The PIRLS study is conducted every five years and assesses the reading literacy of fourth graders around the world. The most recent one said Israeli students' literacy is declining.

MAY 16, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Students sitting in a classroom in Israel.