Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett launched a detailed education reform plan Thursday, calling the current education minister 'terrible' and saying the last four years have been 'devastating' for the system. The Together party leader's proposal includes free daycare for reserve soldiers, AI-based personal tutors for every student, advancing matriculation exams to 11th grade, and consolidating all state education streams into a single system.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, chair of the Together party, laid out a comprehensive education reform plan on Thursday, sharply criticizing the current education ministry leadership. In a statement shared via his party channels, Bennett described Education Minister Yoav Kisch as 'terrible,' claiming that the past four years have been 'devastating' for Israel's education system, which he said has suffered from a focus on internal party primaries rather than student needs.
Bennett's 'New Deal in Education' proposal includes: sweeping bureaucratic restructuring of the Education Ministry; an AI-based personal tutor for every student, freeing teachers to focus on mentorship; free daycare for reserve soldiers and a monthly subsidy of 3,000 shekels for active reservists; advancing all matriculation (bagrut) exams to 11th grade and converting 12th grade into a preparatory (mechina) year; and merging all existing school streams into a single state education system, with non-core-curriculum streams losing state funding.
The plan, first reported by the Yedioth Ahronoth the source, follows an earlier announcement of Bennett's reform vision Thursday afternoon, which The Zioneer covered at 14:31. Critics are likely to focus on the political implications for Bennett's nascent campaign and on the feasibility of the proposed structural overhaul.
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