Tammy Hoffman

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Sep 11, 2024, 3:30 PM

Teachable moments: 9/11 and October 7

Composite: Smoke and flames erupt from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, after commercial aircraft were deliberately crashed into the buildings in lower Manhattan, New York on September 11, 2001. (SETH MCALLISTER / AFP); IDF troops with the 401st Armored Brigade are seen operating in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on September 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

After the worst terror attack on their soil, US educators steered clear of tough questions. It was a dire mistake that Israeli teachers must avoid

Aug 28, 2022, 9:16 AM

Brand new school year – same old crisis

A teacher at Ase Hail school in Efrat gets ready for this week's school year opening. August 23, 2022.(Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

No salary raise will fix a situation in which society undervalues the teaching profession and those who choose it

Apr 27, 2022, 12:39 AM

Holocaust Remembrance Day? We’ve already forgotten

Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, during Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ignoring the Shoah's meaning for all humankind negates the core message of those horrific years: Witness the debate over taking in refugees from Ukraine

Aug 19, 2021, 12:24 PM

We must not squander the opportunity for real change in Israeli schools

Illustrative: A student takes a test in a school in Jerusalem (Flash90)

How many generations of Israelis will be educated without the tools they need to commit to the values of inclusion, respect for the other, and equality?

Apr 23, 2021, 2:29 PM

Why don’t we talk to the teachers?

Israeli students return to school in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

The pandemic offers a chance for much-needed educational reform, but the way schools have rushed back to the old normal suggests that nothing that needs to change will change

Apr 7, 2020, 8:10 AM

A moment of reckoning for the education system: Civics education for democratic citizenship

High-school students who are scheduled to take their matriculation (Bagrut) exams in civics this year, have no idea about issues such as the importance of having a functioning parliament during the coronavirus pandemic, of the subjugation of powers, of the...

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Dr. Tammy Hoffman is a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and a lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education.