Netanyahu Visits Ramle School Hit by Iranian Missile as Israeli Classes Resume

Benjamin Netanyahu began Israel’s school year at a building that had been damaged by an Iranian missile. The prime minister visited the Benzion Netanyahu School in Ramle on Tuesday as classes resumed nationwide.

Education Minister Yoav Kisch joined Netanyahu at the school. They spoke with teachers, administrative staff and students attending their first day of classes. Ramle Mayor Michael Vidal also took part in the visit.

Rehabilitation and renovation work began after the missile strike, and the school received its official reopening just in time for the new academic year.

The Education Ministry expected about 2.6 million students to start school and kindergarten across Israel, including roughly 180,000 first-graders. It said new programs would focus on strengthening students’ sense of belonging and resilience, expanding lessons on identity and heritage, introducing financial education and increasing the use of artificial intelligence in learning and examinations.

Kisch said the ministry would organize the year around belonging and security, identity and roots, and the knowledge and tools needed to cope with a changing world. “We are opening the year with great responsibility and with a clear direction: to strengthen the sense of belonging and resilience of Israel’s students, deepen identity, values, and heritage, while at the same time giving them the knowledge and tools that will enable them to lead and succeed in a rapidly changing world,” he said.

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We are opening the year with great responsibility and with a clear direction: to strengthen the sense of belonging and resilience of Israel’s students, deepen identity, values, and heritage, while at the same time giving them the knowledge and tools that will enable them to lead and succeed in a rapidly changing world.