The gifted and talented classes in Tel Aviv's Graetz school are the only framework for gifted children at the elementary school level. The classes, which go from the third to the sixth grade, are open to all children in the city identified as gifted by the Education Ministry and the Szold Institute. But a Haaretz investigation determined that 89 of the program's 98 students live in the six well-off northern and central districts, while only nine come from the three poorer southern and eastern districts.

Of these nine, five live in relatively well-off neighborhoods within these less advantaged districts.

The classes for gifted students at Graetz offer a curriculum that is both deeper and broader than the equivalent "regular" classes, as well as a faster learning pace. "Less time is devoted to acquiring knowledge and more to deepening, broadening and developing thinking skills, advanced teaching methods to encourage learning and independent research; also, universities are incorporated via enrichment classes, study days and the like," an Education Ministry official explained.