In the educational system in Tel Aviv – Yaffo, about 8800 children attend 305 kindergartens, about 23’000 attend 73 elementary schools and about 20’000 attend 24 high schools. Apart from the school services it is required to provide by law, the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality also operates day-school centers which make it possible for pupils and students to experience structured educational and social activity until the evening hours. To this end it provides hot meals to 1,600 pupils and students and operates 56 classes for supplementary study and preparation for matriculation examinations, as well as additional study centers to help pupils and students facing difficulties. This service is an integral component of the high-quality, egalitarian educational system provided by the municipality to the city’s tens of thousands of pupils and students.

Tel-Aviv-Yaffo: From upper left: Tel Aviv’s skyline at night, Azrieli Center, Dizengoff Square, Jaffa Clock Tower, Tel Aviv beachfront

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Tel Aviv-Yaffo emphasizes persistence of approach and continues in its efforts to maintain the decreasing trend already achieved in the number of dropouts from the school system. It also invests in improving educational achievement levels and increasing the proportion of students who successfully complete their high school matriculation examinations.

Both in the kindergartens and the schools, offers supplementary programs in basic skills – including the Hebrew language, mathematics, English and science, as well as a variety of subjects to foster excellence at all age levels in order to make it possible for pupils and students to realize their potential. Additional educational programs deal with preventing dangerous behaviors and fostering optimal environmental conditions, as well as empowerment and leadership development in order to increase the degree of involvement and commitment of students and pupils to a variety of subjects and values, such as the environment. A unique program – Enlisting with Values – which have developed in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces Educational Corps, offers twelfth grade students special tools for decision making and moral – ethical thinking on the eve of their induction into military service.

חינוך

ילדים

להדגיש

גישה

ערכיםי

הישגים

תלמידים

This Tu Bishvat marks the 61st birthday of the Knesset.

בית נבחרים

חוקה

בחירות

לאומי

לאומני

מיפלגות

אזרחים

In the Talmud

Tu Bishvat appears in the Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashanah as one of the four new years in the Jewish calendar. The discussion of when the new year for trees occurs was a source of debate among the rabbis: "And there are four new year dates: – The first of Nisan – new year for kings and festivals – The first of Elul – new year for animal tithes. Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Shimon say: the first of Tishrei. – The first of Tishrei- new year for calculation of the calendar, sabbatical years and jubilees, for planting and sowing – The first of Shevat – new year for trees, according to the school of Shamai; The school of Hillel say: the fifteenth of Shevat" (Rosh Hashana:1a)

The rabbis of the Talmud ruled in favor of Hillel on this issue. Thus the 15th of Shevat became the date for calculating when the agricultural cycle began or ended for the purpose of biblical tithes involving trees and fruit.

Biblical Tithes

Orlah refers to a biblical prohibition (Leviticus 19:23) on eating the fruit of trees produced during the first three years after they are planted.

Neta Reva’i refers to the biblical commandment (Leviticus 19:24) to bring fourth-year fruit crops to Jerusalem as a tithe.

Maaser Sheni and Maaser Ani were tithes to the poor (Deuteronomy 14:22-29) that were also calculated by whether the fruit ripened before or after Tu Bishvat.

Dried Figs

Peanuts

Raisins

Dried Pineapple

almonds

תאנה

צימוקים

בוטנים

Almonds

שקדים

Fruit

פירות

יובל

עץ