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Last week Bennett rolled out a new reform to strengthen spoken English, but there’s a major difference between an abstract plan and reality.

"I know that all these involve endless work, after-school and into the night. And for that, I give thanks and appreciation in my name and in the name of Israeli society," Education Minister told Israeli teachers.

In an Arab school in Israel, students engaged in simulating a security court, where children dressed up as Arab terrorist prisoners recited anti-Zionist poetry while their friends, dressed as Israeli security forces, looked on.

Despite a pending petition to the Supreme Court, the IDF Civil Administration went ahead and razed the memorial.

“The Jews of the U.S. are welcomed and loved. They are our brothers. But mistakes were made regarding timing and the way things were done."

"It is important to make clear, before the start of a diplomatic process, that Jerusalem will never be divided under any circumstance."

The cabinet passed a series of concessions to appease Trump, including converting land in Area C to Area A.

Should this be filed under irony, hypocrisy or just simply hatred?

Mayor Barkat: 'We will not bow our heads to the violence and incitement of the radical-Left.'

From the 'A New Way' website: 'A New Way transforms this vision into a daily reality, and enables an ongoing dialogue based on multicultural equality in Israel.'

'The judicial appointments this evening express the human as well as jurist common sense we so need as a society and which has been so direly absent from the highest judicial echelon.'

MK Zehava Galon (Meretz) said Breaking the Silence is a "patriotic organization" and that those who object to it want a 'paranoid education system that does not deal with criticism.'

Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi called the residents of the Jewish community of Amona "land thieves" while speaking to Ono Academic College.

MK Lapid said 'Israel's school system must not permit entry of organizations that slander IDF officers and soldiers, calling them criminals and encouraging insubordination. Consider what happens to a student who hears these stories just before joining the Army.'

Thousands of Israelis gather in Jerusalem to call on the government to prevent the evacuation of Amona.

Bennett checks out the Haifa fires

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) twitted on Wednesday: "Only someone this country doesn't belong to is capable of burning it."

Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.

MK Yehuda Glick wished Trump would be able "to ascend to the Temple Mount and lead from that source of the world's energy a dialogue of reconciliation and global peace."

Among other things the resolution blames Israel for destroying Jerusalem's historic and archeological heritage by conducting archaeological digs.

For the first time ever, Israel is hosting the OECD Global Education Industry Summit.

About 60 ministers of education from a range of OECD countries gathered Sunday in Jerusalem for a three-day program to explore Israel’s culture of entrepreneurship.

It's not clear who is having more fun on this first day of school, the politicians or the students.

Bennett pledged that his ministry would combat ethnic discrimination in the enrollment process of all educational institutions, particularly the ultra-Orthodox.

It should be noted that those Haredi schools that rejected the government-imposed of a Core Curriculum did so not necessarily because they object to teaching their students many of the subjects on the list.

The elimination of the obligation to teach core curriculum subjects will not result in reducing the budgets of Haredi yeshivas who pass on the extra material.

Ahead of coalition reshuffle, Bennett revving up attacks on Netanyahu, Liberman urging calm.

The Helmsley Trust is funding a Muslim-Jewish medical center initiative at Ariel University.

The problems in the security cabinet were revealed as part of the lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in the summer of 2014 and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

“By standing together with the foreign agent organization ‘Breaking the Silence,’ the University forms a common front with those who bolster the BDS movement."