Education

Representing Chiyona Sugihara at the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan, August 2025

The Center for the Study of European Jewry at Tel Aviv University: The commemoration of the Holocaust in the world is turning a growing spotlight on the Righteous Among the Nations

The booklet "For a Noble Cause" points to a global trend of museums and exhibitions focusing on Jewish rescuers, alongside a warning against blurring the historical context of the Holocaust.
Social failure. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Persistent Failure: How Ignorance, Fear, and Division Are Eroding Human Society

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Opinion column: The great problem of humanity is not just a lack of knowledge, but the distorted use of it. When ignorance becomes an active mechanism, even societies with historical experience, education, and achievements may once again fall into cycles of
Dr. Sian Proctor on stage at the Ilan Ramon Conference, Tel Aviv 1/28/2026. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Dr. Sean “Leo” Proctor at the Ilan Ramon Conference: “Art is part of the way to open up space to everyone”

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Inspiration4 mission pilot recounts how a poem she wrote as part of the “Prosperity” seat competition became the “JEDI Space” vision, and explains why combining creativity, science, and diverse representation is a prerequisite for the future of manned space
Artificial intelligence and creativity. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Who is more creative in “branching thinking” tests—humans or large language models?

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Scientific Reports examined the ability to generate ideas and originality, and the practical question is when the model expands creativity and when it reduces it.
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Yes, but what if? – Optional thinking reduces stereotypes: Prof. Ben Shaul’s film workshops show measurable change

As part of the National Science Foundation workshop: Screening “Run Lola Run” and writing/photography exercises increased optional thinking ability by 75% and 50% of participants changed negative attitudes toward the other group – compared to a control group that watched
The working screen of the eye tracking system. Photo: Technion Spokesperson

Eyes on the Text: New Technology from the Technion Detects Reading Purpose

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Researchers in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences have developed computational models that combine eye tracking and natural language processing, and are able to identify the purpose of reading with an accuracy of about 90% within two seconds.
Does CHATGPT affect the brain?

MIT study warns: Excessive use of GPT chat may impair brain connectivity and critical thinking

New study reveals dramatic decline in brain activity among AI users in writing – raising concerns about profound effects on the education, memory, and intellectual independence of the next generation
The destruction of medical and scientific research in the Trump-Musk administration. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DAKEE

Musk's cuts threaten US science, education, and healthcare infrastructure and will harm generations

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Cuts in direct and indirect research budgets at NIH, NOAA, FEMA, and many other agencies will lead to a decline in research infrastructure, stunted scientific innovation, and loss of talent, which could critically impact the development of treatments and public health.
A green city, for mental health. Credit: The Science website. The image was produced using DALEE for illustrative purposes and is not a scientific image

Human culture is changing at a rate too high for evolution to catch up - so it could affect each of us

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Some problematic trends can be understood from a mismatched evolutionary fit. For example, competition and anxiety about social status have been linked to obsessions with studies, competing for prestigious positions and materialism. There is a growing trend of "being poor longer".
Harvard University. Photo: © Jiawangkun | Dreamstime.com

Seven Nobel laureates have appealed to the heads of Harvard, MIT and Pennsylvania over the hesitancy in dealing with anti-Semitism

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The Seven expressed their concern over the hesitant responses of the institutions' leadership to condemn the calls for genocide
A war with iron swords Kibbutzim in the Gaza Strip Reim parking lot at the place where a mass party took place and about 260 young people were murdered Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO

How to deal with a routine of war and how to preserve the children's optimism?

The surprise and speed with which things happened, and the ignorance regarding the fate of many people, arouses tension and distress in all of us. Bar-Ilan University's mental support team offers several ways to help us deal with
scientific reserve. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Does the program - a scientific and technological reserve contribute to paving and inequality?

About the program - scientific and technological reserve - in the schools, and about its effect on the future of the students
Demonstrators against the coup in Tel Aviv, 2023. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Four ways populists endanger democracy

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The populists are lying when they claim they want to empower us all by denying judges the authority to oversee democracy. They really want to break through the strongest constitutional barrier against authoritarianism
A girl plays with dolls. - from Jumpstory.com

Things Yoram knows: why do girls play with dolls and boys with cars?

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The coffin of the late Rona Ramon which was placed in the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Rona Ramon promoted science studies and made them accessible to many children"

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Head of Technical and Technical Studies Prof. Yaffe Zilbrashtz at the Afka conference for the development of national human capital in engineering. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"High-tech also needs psychologists and lawyers with a background in mathematics and programming"

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Online studies. Image: from PIXABAY.COM

The technology in the education system must adapt to the technological habits of the students

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Robotics participants. Source: Technion spokesmen.

This road starts here

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Walter. Source: Wikimedia.

You can't study science and technology without Walter

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The four freedoms of education

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Ravivim school students in Holon during the experiment.

The effect of the nature of the group on the effectiveness of learning

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Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

Survey: 70% support evolution studies - 66% in Jewish schools, 89% in Arab schools

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Ben Nelson, founder of Minerva, in a lecture at the World Economic Forum in Dubai.

Project Minerva: The future of academia?

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QCRAFT: A "mod" of the game Minecraft, which teaches players about quantum entanglement and other strange quantum phenomena. Credit: QCRAFT.ORG

Mind games / Alan Gerschenfeld

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The scientific tablet Einstein of the Fourier company. PR photo

Israeli development: a tablet that is also a scientific laboratory

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Military parade in Jerusalem, Independence Day 1968. From Wikipedia

A country haunted by demons XNUMX: The wise and educated want to run away from here and the stupid don't understand why

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The increase in the number of students between 2000-2010 by educational sector. From a report published by the Taub Institute, November 2012

A country haunted by demons XNUMX: The State of Israel will become a country of a lower level even than that of the Third World

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A laptop project for every student at a school in Thimphu, Bhutan. From Wikipedia

What is necessary, what is possible and the relationship between them / Dr. Liat Ben David

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Israeli nano satellite to the moon. Figure: SPACEIL Group

Israeli entrepreneurship is the key to the future

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Haredim in the Four Species market in Tel Aviv, 2010. Photo: shutterstock

"And Talmud Torah against everyone" - a new book that reveals the nature of the ultra-orthodox education system

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From the Etrog blocking service website

The divine particle is blocked for the ultra-Orthodox

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A laptop project for every student at a school in Thimphu, Bhutan. From Wikipedia

The thirty-three digital skills every teacher in the 21st century needs

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Teenagers play computer games and kill aliens at a conference at Haifa University, 7/2/2012. Photo: Haifa University

"Star-Craft" on the educational front

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman: "There are big holes in education and the Israeli government must correct the injustice in which half of the students do not study core studies"

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Graduation ceremony at the University of Canterbury in the UK. From Wikipedia

Towards real life

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The beautiful and geeky program broadcast on channel 10: brings together gifted people who lack social skills with girls who are in the opposite situation

Contrary to the stereotype: gifted teenagers show higher levels of social behavior characteristics

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The muses Cleo, Uterpa and Thalia by Austache de Sauer

A new study in the field of gifted education at the University of Haifa reveals what the innate quality of creativity is

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Robot battle arena

The Nokia Hall will become an arena for dozens of robots that will compete with each other as part of the FIRST robotics competition

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In a unique community excavation and the largest in Israel to date, researchers from the University of Haifa together with school students from the area of ​​the Menashe Regional Council are uncovering Tel-Assor, a Canaanite settlement from the Bronze Age

The largest community archaeological excavation in Israel brought hundreds of XNUMXth graders out of their classrooms and into the excavation of the past

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eyes for the blind

"The Young Engineer" competition

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Technion symbol

Hundreds of students in grades XNUMX-XNUMX will participate in the Robotics Olympiad at the Technion

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The Technion uploaded courses in mathematics and physics to the Internet

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From right to left: The Technion's Vice President for Foreign Relations and Resource Development, Professor Rafi Rom, Minister Herzog, the Technion's Senior Vice President, Professor Paul Feigin, and Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Horev, former Technion President and currently Chairman of the Technion's Association of Demanders in Israel. Photo: Yoav Bacher , spokeswoman for the Technion.

The Minister of Welfare visited the Technion and recommended increasing the integration of Arabs and Haredim in the labor market

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The relationship between IQ and other measures of success. Source: Wikimedia Commons

The gifted students will earn more in their matriculation than the normal students

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MDCs when demonstrating an experiment in physics

The MDC project in physics celebrates a decade

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Studying mathematics. From the Mount Mary College website

What about math and values?

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The whole country is in translation

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

There is no need for one size fits all. In colleges, everyone can find the path that suits them

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The number has meaning: the greater the number of examinees, the lower the average score

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Technological education - man versus machine

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