Shmuel Abuav, who led pandemic response in school systems, says he'll stay until start of school year; Minister Gallant hails him as 'loyal partner'

Pushing for 9 additional school days due to the lengthy coronavirus lockdown, Education Minister Gallant says he won't allow 'anarchy' in education system

Official notifies Education Ministry that teaching staff will not get full wages for distance learning given during coronavirus lockdown if they don't add 9 days in July

After almost 2 months, daycares and kindergartens reopen with social distancing, but class size limits and lingering compensation issues mean thousands are remaining behind

Comments come as hundreds of thousands of kids set to return to kindergartens on Sunday morning; Lag B'Omer situation remains unresolved at national level

Government set to weigh plan on Sunday to relaunch preschools and first through third grades, expand special education class sizes

Education minister says distance learning problem is 'not compulsory'; union insists there will be no further extension into summer vacation

Municipality had earlier said it was banning and reimbursing non-resident participants as Israeli officials work to prevent coronavirus from reaching country

Municipality says it is following Health Ministry instructions, will only permit the 40,000 local participants to run; athletes from abroad will be reimbursed