Talila Nesher

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Bar Ilan University - Dan Keinan - 17022012
Bar-Ilan fined by Israel's higher education council for lax admissions standards

University is only institution of higher learning in Israel to grant graduate degrees to students who do not hold bachelor's degrees, investigation finds.

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Gidon Sa'ar - Nir Kedar - 22022012
Study: School violence in Israel down by 25%

Study shows that 16 percent of pupils between seventh and eleventh grades define themselves as victims of sexual violence.

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Gideon Sa’ar Gush Katif Museum - Muki  Shwartz - 21022012
Rabbi behind Gaza museum suspected of bribing soldiers

Right-wing activists questioned by police on suspicion of encouraging soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate illegal outposts by offering them money.

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Junior faculty at universities to start semester with strike

Organizers calling for an end to employment practices that it says treat junior staff members as subcontracted workers.

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Gideon Sa’ar - Muki Schwartz - February 2012
Education Ministry school program presents Gush Katif as the epitome of Zionism

'Gush Katif Day' took place in schools across Israel in an attempt to strengthen what Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar believes is the 'legacy' of the settlements.

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Sign over  Kfar Sava school time clock reads 'Chutzpah.'
Kfar Sava teachers declare mutiny against the time clock

More than 6,000 teachers sign petition demanding Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar and teachers union get rid of the time clocks.

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Bar Ilan University - Dan Keinan - 17022012
Israel's treasury asks Bar-Ilan University to explain official's excessive wages

Finance Ministry caps monthly wages for university directors general at NIS 52,079 per month, but Bar-Ilan pays NIS 59,000.

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Teachers - Appelbaum - 2.2012
Subcontracted teachers strike over 'exploitative' conditions

Striking teachers will hold public discussions and protest actions at 40 educational facilities on Wednesday, as well as demonstration outside home of Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar.

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Foreign workers kids - Milrod - Feb 2012
Israel to announce names of foreign workers' children set for deportation

Some 375 families of foreign workers with children in Israeli schools will find out on Wednesday if they will be allowed to stay in the country.

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Ariel University - David Bachar - 14022012
Ariel center moves a step closer to becoming university

Hundreds of academics, including four Israel Prize laureates, petition education minister to nix process.

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Israel's Education Ministry turns to pensioners, students to run 1,500 new kindergartens

Recruitment drive is caused by the implementation of the new compulsory education law, guaranteeing free kindergartens from the age of three.

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Workers at Ben-Gurion airport - Alon-Lee Green - 09022012
Airport contract workers use slowdown to join union

According to workers, in addition to the lack of social benefits, they are expected to work long night shifts at no additional pay, and remain on their feet for hours.

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Price tag - Emil Salman - 08022012
Racist graffiti scrawled on Jerusalem monastery, Jewish-Arab school

'Death to Arabs' and 'Kahane was right' were spray-painted in Hebrew on a wall outside the bilingual school.

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'Price tag' at Jerusalem bilingual school - Feb. 7, 2012
Jerusalem monastery, Jewish-Arab school defaced in suspected 'price tag' attack

'Death to Arabs' and 'Kahane was right' daubed outside bilingual school; Christian monastery defaced with 'Death to Christians' and 'price tag' inscriptions; Jerusalem police investigating both incidents.

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Subcontracted teachers to go on strike Tuesday

Strike will affect 6,000 students attending 23 education centers for at-risk youth in cities including Afula, Eilat, Lod, Netanya and Ra'anana.

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Gideon Sa’ar - Olivier Fitoussi - 07022012
Sa'ar dismisses teachers' opposition to Hebron tours

Education Minister says such 'political organizing' is inconsequential and students will visit the city.

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Education Minister: Hebron school trips should have started a long time ago

Likud's Gideon Sa'ar rebuffs protest letter by 260 teachers who refuse to participate in trips to the West Bank town, saying missive is part of anti-government campaign aided by Haaretz.

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heritage tour to Hebron
Teachers oppose ministry's Hebron 'heritage tours'

For first time in Israel's history, 200 teachers sign letter declaring refusal to participate in the Education Ministry's program.

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Gideon Sa’ar
College presidents: Teacher-training system near collapse

College presidents demanded suspension of a planned 4 percent cut to their budgets in order to fund free education to all children in Israel from the age of three years.

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Yair Lapid - Hadar Cohen - 31012012
Bar-Ilan program head defends decision to admit Yair Lapid

Council for Higher Education's oversight committee rules that students admitted to graduate programs must first earn an undergraduate degree.

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Gideon Sa’ar - Tomer Appelbaum - 02022012
Tours of Hebron to be offered to all schools

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar expands controversial pilot program.

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saar - Emil Salman - December 9 2011
All Israeli schools can now join West Bank 'heritage' tours, Education Minister says

The controversial program has until now been part of the Jerusalem school curriculum, but Education Minister Sa'ar says response has been high and schools are interested in bringing students to see Hebron.

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Education authority cracks down on Lapid-style fast-track doctorates

Bar Ilan University accepts Yair Lapid to its prestigious doctoral program despite lacking a bachelor's degree.

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Yair Lapid - Hadar Cohen - 31012012
Bar-Ilan University facing sanctions for accepting Yair Lapid

Political newcomer did not have B.A., as required by education council, when he was accepted directly into a Master's and then doctoral program.

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Police cancel students' Breaking the Silence tour of Hebron

The planned tour, organized by a Jerusalem-based group called Breaking the Silence, was scheduled to provide students with testimony from IDF soldiers and veterans who have served in the West Bank.

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