Education
Experts contend that middle and high schools are becoming the next frontier in anti-Israel activism.
The number of Israeli researchers working in America reached 1,725 in 2017—an increase of 5.6 percent from the previous year.
As a result of the ruling, the state will fund pre-military education programs to train girls on living in a less insular, more open and diverse society, and will provide instructors for a variety of topics.
The legislation, passed unanimously in the state legislature last month, allocates $22.6 million for security in private schools, six times the funding from three years ago.
A Ra’anana-based organization known as Nevet (“sprout”) currently provides 8,000 Israeli children in 130 schools from 50 municipalities with breakfast each morning during the school week. That amounts to 1.3 million meals a year.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is looking to insert into the upcoming must-pass spending legislation this month his proposed measure that would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses and at other educational institutions.
“It is an absolute disgrace that Israeli academics, whose salary is paid for by the Israeli taxpayer, are leading the calls to boycott academic institutions in Israel,” said Matan Peleg, CEO of the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu.
Now in its ninth year, the Hebrew Public network of 13 charter schools utilizes a blend of startup philanthropic funding and state funds to offer high-quality Hebrew language education to Jewish and non-Jewish students alike.
A BDS event sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Michigan was held 48 hours after a gunman shot and killed 11 Jews in Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, leaving six injured, including four law-enforcement officers.
Dangoors give major gift to Imperial College London
A $6.4 million contribution from the Dangoor family’s Exilarch Foundation through its education component will have a far-reaching impact at Imperial College London.
It’s the only Jewish day school in the United States and the only private school in California to receive the award this year.
The Belgian Ministry of Development Cooperation has announced that “the glorification of terrorism or perpetrators of terrorist acts is not acceptable under any circumstances.”
