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Or Kashti is the education analyst for Haaretz Newspaper.

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Education Ministry considering shorter summer vacation, adding midyear break

Proposal would shorten summer vacation by two weeks in order to create a two-week break in the middle of the school year.

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Johanna Jabotinsky Youth Village  - Alon Ron - Oct. 29, 2010
NGOs run by ex-Likud officials accused of defrauding teachers

Haaretz investigation uncovers fraud worth millions of shekels.

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Teachers protesting, Nir Keidar, 2007
Over half of teachers earn less than average wage, ministry report finds

According to the Finance Ministry's 2009 Wage Report, 54% of teachers gross less than NIS 7,949 a month.

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Nonprofit, ministry team up to bring kids free books 0 comments
Sha’ar Hanegev High School, Limor Edrey
History students fight to use textbook presenting both Israeli and Palestinian narratives

Sha'ar Hanegev High students demand to meet head of the Education Ministry's pedagogical secretariat who banned the school from using the book.

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classroom - Daniel Bar-On - October 22 2010
Elementary schools more violent than high schools, students say 0 comments
exchanges - Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit - October 22 2010
Israeli Arabs, Jews trade places in new school civics initiative

Injecting civility into civics: trying to get Jewish and Arab students to engage with each other through a TV program.

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President Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin Tess Scheflan
Peres: Forgetting Rabin's legacy endangers democracy

Events surrounding the 15th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination began on Monday with a series of rallies and ceremonies nationwide.

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Classroom, Archive: Tomer Appelbaum
Denied state funding, private school slams 'double standard'

Education Ministry rejected request of Havruta private school to receive accreditation as a recognized educational institution, a step that would have made it eligible for considerable state subsidies.

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Adolf Hitler image Oct. 6, 2010 (AP)
Elite art school expels student for torching peer's Hitler portrait

Expulsion of student from Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Givatayim still requires Education Ministry approval.

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BGU relaxes rules on student protests

Ben-Gurion University changes its regulations to allow protests to be held with prior notice of only 24 hours, down from seven days.

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Students, barred from Agency program during semester, protest ministry's new restrictions on educational trips 0 comments
textbook - Haaretz - October 11 2010
PA adopts textbook, banned in Israel, offering both sides' narratives

Palestinian Education Ministry's adoption of book marks first time Israeli position is presented to West Bank schoolchildren.

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University swarms with Israeli literature students, all 14 of them

Days before semester begins, literature enrollment is at all-time low.

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Wajdan Abu Alian and Dina Abu Rabia Oct. 7, 2010 Eliahu Hershkovitz
Negev school kicks out two Bedouin students, citing new enrollment policy

On September 1, hours after she had returned from her first day of school in Omer, the school called Wajdan Abu Alian's parents to ask them not to bring her to school anymore.

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Dr. Gavriel Avital
Sa'ar dismisses chief scientist for questioning evolution

Gavriel Avital sparked controversy with statements over creationism and global warming.

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20,000 teachers unpaid in school licensing flap

Ministry 'holding us hostage' in battle with school authorities, techers complain.

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Ethiopian children - Tal Cohen - Sept. 30, 2010
Exam to seek gifted among Ethiopian immigrant kids

IDF already uses scheme for training Ethiopian community soldiers who scored poorly in regular exams.

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classroom - Alberto Denkberg - April 24, 2009
Education Ministry bans textbook that offers Palestinian narrative

Education Ministry summons principal of Sderot area high school after school was found to be using book that offers both the Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the Middle East conflict.

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Bar-Ilan lecturer reportedly denied tenure due to views

Colleagues say remarks against occupation kept Ariella Azoulay, who teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy, from promotion.

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Mila Spivak
'No one will call them a dirty Russian'

90 percent of the students at the Johanna Jabotinsky High School near Be'er Yaakov are either immigrants from the former Soviet Union or the Israeli-born children of Soviet immigrants.

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school - Nir Keidar - August 31 2010
One third of young olim report difficulties in Israeli schools

According to a new study, one-third of immigrant students report being humiliated or insulted at least once due to their ethnic background.

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Ministry says no to Tiberias educating special-needs student

Family: City hoped to cut transport costs.

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Parents of elementary students strike against move to 6-day week 0 comments
Rivka Carmi September 16, 2010 Alberto Denkberg
BGU reprimands two more students over protests

Harsh and disproportionate penalty would bar students from political activism, says one student.

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