Education
The Texas Board of Education voted during a curriculum review last week to keep a controversial sentence in high school textbooks, used by approximately 5.4 million public-school children.
The Jewish state spends about 6 percent less per elementary-school child, 24 percent less per high school student and 41 percent per post-high school student than the OECD average.
Earlier this year, the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act was introduced in both houses of Congress.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, taking part in the first day ceremonies told students: “You can be prime ministers, and, of course, presidents of the country. You can be ministers or Knesset members. ... The boys and girls here are the future of the State of Israel.”
At a Newton Public School board meeting in June, residents expressed outrage over the anti-Israel classroom materials, calling for the firing of the school superintendent.
Two Israeli universities listed among global Top 100
The Technion, in the 93rd spot last year, shot up to the 77th spot among universities across the globe. Hebrew University, which did not make the list last year, reached the 95th slot.
Other Lockheed programs in Israel include the first LEGO Junior League finals, including 200 third- and fourth-graders; a cyber summer camps for middle-school girls; and a national cyber competition for high-schoolers, in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces Cyber Command and the Rashi Foundation.
Meet Rabbi Menachem Bombach, 41, the founder of Torah Academy-Midrasha Chasidit, a new yeshivah system in Israel focused on reducing poverty in the haredi community through education.
As Jews across Israel and around the world celebrated Lag B’Omer, Israeli authorities announced that they had found a symbol of the Shimon bar Kochba revolt against the Romans in the form of a small bronze coin.
An estimated 250,000 men, women and children are expected to travel to gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the small northern village in the Upper Galilee over a two- to three-day period starting on Wednesday.
University code of ethics limits political agendas in Israeli classrooms
The new code also halts discrimination for or against students by the lecturer as a result of their political views, and prohibits any connection or public support of academic boycotts of Israeli institutions.
