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Israel’s PISA collapse exposes a failing education system threatening its future - opinion

The figure that should truly alarm Israel is that the 2025 collapse is occurring not at the margins of the education system, but at its core. What should be done?

View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025.
MK Tally Gotliv attends a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025.

The Likud primary: Trolling as a way to gain support – opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah attend the Likud Party's election campaign opening event in Jerusalem, Jan 21, 2020.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has an insurance policy - it's called Israel's opposition – opinion

A photo shows a view of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquarters in Paris on September 22, 2025

Your Taxes: How to live longer according to the OECD


OECD tells Israel to cut red tape in non-tech sectors to boost economy

OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann praised Israel's economic progress since joining the OECD in 2010, but says Israel should reduce bureaucracy and over-regulation in traditional sectors.

 Secretary-General of the OECD Mathias Cormann and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting on February 13, 2022.

Israeli health system understaffed, under-equipped - OECD data

A report released by the Health Ministry examined exactly where Israel has improved or deteriorated when compared with data from 2010.

 Kaplan hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the Coronavirus ward of Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot on January 18, 2022.

Israel to join new OECD digital tax treaty - Liberman

The new finance minister announced on Tuesday that Israel will join the OECD's digital taxation policy along with 138 other countries.

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman met with department officials to discuss Israel's accession to  the OECD Digital Economy Taxation Outline, June 22, 2021.

OECD official: Israel leads in digitization, cyber - Watch Now

"The Israeli level of development and digitization is twice that of other OECD countries."

OECD Secretary General Jose Angel Gurria attends a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan April 13, 2017.

‘Soup-kitchen nation:’ Relieving poverty in Israel by reducing food waste

Addressing one of the ramifications of poverty by a government-led food rescue program

Presenting the annual poverty report.

Israel economic growth slows to 3.3%, weakest since 2015

Growth in 2020 is expected to remain close to 3%, but Bank of Israel policymakers have expressed caution, given the current government stalemate.

A woman uses an ATM at a branch of Israel Discount Bank in Tel Aviv, Israel July 27, 2016

Netanyahu: Israel must continue to reduce bureaucracy

More than 50 government processes have been digitized, the Prime Minister's Office said, including issuing tax payment receipts and transitioning to online licensing examinations.

Prime Minister Netanyahu in a cabinet meeting on May 12, 2019, during which he announced the location of a new town, named after President Trump, to be built in the Golan Heights

‘More than one-quarter of Israelis poor or nearly poor’ - Report

While Israel's technological and scientific breakthroughs are impressive, it is still has the highest rate of poverty of any OECD country, according to a National Insurance Institute report.

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

What is behind Israel's widening budget deficit?

The country's fiscal deficit between March 2018 and February 2019 had grown to 3.5% of gross domestic product, compared to 3.3% in the year leading up to January and 2.9% in December.

An Israel Shekel note

Your taxes: OECD proposals for a digitized economy

Jose Angel Gurria (R), Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at a news conference with Finance Minister Yair Lapid.