The IDF also launched a new offensive in Khan Yunis.
Hamas used the Abu Oraiban School as a hideout and as a point to direct and launch attacks on Israeli soldiers.
Soldiers from the 646th Brigade captured 10 Hamas terrorists in the school.
Meanwhile, UN and USAID sacks were being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The school, which was recently targeted by Arab gunmen, is one of four new institutions that will prepare Arab students for Israeli high school matriculation.
It's Labor Day Weekend in the US, but in Israel, it's a real holiday as the kids (Baruch Hashem) have gone back to school.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This decision is a victory for all religious schools in the state of New Jersey, but it is especially important for Orthodox Jews,” stated Eric Rassbach of the nonprofit firm Becket.
“A man-made cavity underneath the grounds of an UNRWA school in Gaza” was discovered.
According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
In the 12 years since the unveiling of the Fayyad Plan, the PA has built 100 new and illegal schools in Area C.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An IMPACT-se report showed that PA school textbooks have “consistently shown a systematic insertion of violence, martyrdom and jihad across all grades and subjects.”
The Islamic Shiite Waqf Committee in Burj al Barajneh foundation is suspected of being used to hide ballistic missiles and launch sites, according to the Alma research organization.
The move will be accompanied by an increase in the number of (Covid) tests among teaching staff and students.
The pilot is intended to keep schools open by making them into COVID-free “protective bubbles,”
But not everyone is happy with the reopening plan.
The students who arrived in more than 70 elementary and middle schools were greeted by some 200 street performers at the school gates.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a personal message to all the students returning to school today in Israel.
Coronavirus continues to spread through the Israeli school system.
Over 200 students and staff have gone into quarantine, and 500 students have already been tested, and the rest will be tested next week.
Teachers and students in the 7th grade were sent into quarantine.
There has been concern that the government reopened the schools too soon due to public pressure.
Residents of the neighborhood have been asked to stay home, while people in direct contact with the family have to go into isolation.
Excluded from the closures are nursery schools and kindergartens, classes up to 3rd grade, special education, and at-risk schools.
Parents in eastern Jerusalem fear that Coronavirus has arrived in the city after a group of 14 girls returned from a trip in northern Italy and did not stay in quarantine.
Due to the ongoing rocket attacks by Islamic Jihad, school has been cancelled for the following Israeli cities...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The situation is raising eyebrows about the standards maintained during the hiring and vetting of professionals—or worse, that the federations and synagogues themselves are comfortable with BDS activists teaching at Hebrew schools.
The award was presented by the Minister of Education Naftali Bennett at a special ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
By Marc Gronich
It’s a struggle year after year for our schools to hire and retain the quality teachers they need.
I remembered the years of bringing up six teenage daughters. Of course they weren’t all teenagers at the same time but sometimes it definitely felt like it.
By JNi.Media
'It’s really sad to hear that a place that takes pride in taking students from across the world would behave like this.'
By JNi.Media
Club Z began as a quick study group for a few teens that wanted to arm themselves with accurate information about Israel and the Middle East conflict.
The following is an excerpt from the announcement that was made from the podium:
In reality, if your child is asking you for help that means that he has not figured out a way to master the situation on his own.
By Pnina Baim
Guess what! We are going to be making our own lunches, and it will be the best ever.
By JNi.Media
"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."
By JNi.Media
One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."
Imagine if the US named a school after a terrorist? Unthinkable, but the PA did and insisted on making a big public show of the fact that it is naming a school after a murderer of Americans.
Know your child and find a school where she will have a variety of opportunities to shine.
By JNi.Media
One entry went: "You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please," according to the police report.
By Pnina Baim
The number one way to avoid many of the typical challenges that could delay a child’s success and growth in the coming years is by utilizing a well-thought out routine.
Chabad seeks sponsors to subsidize tuition scholarships for families unable to pay.
By JNi.Media
"In a busy school, this student did go to a respected staff member said 'is this OK?' and the staff member said 'yes,'" the principal explained.
It's not clear who is having more fun on this first day of school, the politicians or the students.
By gradually increasing the workload, the body is called upon to respond. The work should never be easy.
A look inside UNRWA schools...
Israeli children start to stock up on school supplies ahead of the beginning of the school year in September.
Thousands of RJJ alumni were, or are still, active in important leadership roles in Jewish life and Jewish communities in the U.S. and Israel.
“There is no other known discovery like this. It is simply one of a kind,” said IAA geologist Anastasia Shapiro.
This is the second time in the past month that Arab terrorists have targeted the bus driver of a school bus.
By JNi.Media
A group of ambitious students and parents from Hod Hasharon last week shot a meteorological balloon 15 miles up, almost reaching the edge of the earth's atmosphere.
As there's no school on Purim, Israeli schools hold their Purim parties and dress-ups earlier... Photos by Flash90: Yonatan Sindel, Gershon Elinson, Lior Mizrahi
At 10:05 AM, all across Israel, air raid sirens sounded as part of a nationwide drill. Students participated in the Home Front exercise in different ways, from assisting security crews to going into bomb shelter.
The ultra-Orthodox school has the right to appeal the decision but has not yet done so.
Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai visited the town of Efrat in Gush Etzion to observe how the town protects its educational centers and students.
With the right approach, children with dyslexia can soar.
Three Arab men were stabbed in Dimona on Friday morning, apparently by a Jewish man.
President Ruby Rivlin opened the new school year with new first grade students at the Mamad Shilat school in the Jewish town of Paduel in the Shomron, on September 1, 2015.
There was a nationwide missile drill today.
If it's not missiles, then it's earthquakes, or at least being prepared for missiles and earthquakes.
Benign neglect could be setting up Jews in eastern Jerusalem for “Gush Katif No. 2”
An eight year old boy was struck and killed in a parking lot by a school bus Tuesday at Kibbutz Kfar Menachem.
A Michigan high school stopped a military dad from entering the building because his uniform "might offend" some students.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I know that you spent your vacation doing things not according to what you planned," the prime minister told students in southern Israel.
What is interesting is the latest reason the Arabs are rioting...
It's Rosh Chodesh Elul, and that means school has begun in the Chareidi school system.
By Rachel Levy
Some 20 people are dead after an attack at the UNRWA school in northern Gaza late Tuesday, but it's not clear who fired at the building.
By Rachel Levy
Another UNRWA school is found to be a storage spot for untold number of Hamas missiles.
Britain's leadership becomes aware of an Islamist plot to take over the nation's school system.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Haifa was crowned the ‘smartest’ city in the Middle East by the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona.
By Shalom Bear
A nationwide air raid drill was run today, so the schools will be prepared for missiles from Iran, Gaza or the Palestinian Authority.
A student killed one policeman, a biology teacher, shot and wounded another policeman and took 20 pupils hostage before police overcame and arrested him Sunday in the northern end of Moscow. "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school," an interior ministry […]
"Everything we have done and learned regarding the gifted students has also come from speaking to more experienced Olim, not through the system."
Response to Rabbi Wallerstein's Agudah convention speech.
This massive amount of money is not going towards schools, medical centers, or social programs - just terrorism.
The Israeli Ministry of Education announced on Saturday evening that students should not take their gas masks to school, and classes will run as usual. The Ministry said they are in constant contact with the relevant security forces, and is following their directives to provide a secure learning environment.
By JTA
Incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Yeshiva University were not limited to its high school for boys, an investigation has found. The investigation commissioned by the university and carried out by the New York-based law firm Sullivan & Cromwell followed reports of sexual abuse by two faculty members at Y.U.’s high school for boys […]
By Shalom Bear
Millions of adults in Israel are unusually happy today as 2,129,562 children return to school for the start of the school year.
By Barry Rubin
I sat there speechless. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky handed Getnet Amare, the mayor of Gondar, Ethiopia, the keys to the school that had prepared thousands of Jewish Ethiopian children for their subsequent immigration to Israel through education in math, physics, computers and English. In a ceremony on Monday, the Jewish Agency donated all the school buildings and equipment […]
There is a huge difference between standing up for oneself and retaliating against others.
I know families with an OTD child that are very right wing, moderate Charedi, and right wing Modern Orthodox.
She teaches all things explosive: from how to handle the explosives themselves to utilizing them in operations, such as gaining access to buildings.
Everyone knows that even without Judea and Samaria, the Arab birth rate will make Jews a minority in the future in Israel. Everyone is wrong. But the Haredi population still is growing the fastest.
In Israel, a new five month scholarship program being offered to young aspiring athletes - one of them could be you.
The greatest tragedy made manifest in Steubenville is the attitude of teenage men toward girls.
When it comes to victims of abuse the overriding approach should be one of compassion and understanding. But school officials' mishandling of a situation should not automatically result in termination.
Despite Chabad’s success in spreading Torah, they are not really integrated with the rest of Orthodoxy.
Grieving requires a new language.
A madman shot up a Connecticut kindergarten killing 26 people, among them 20 children.