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Israel Adding Financial Education Program to School Curricula
Starting in 2026-27, Israeli secondary students will receive mandatory financial education covering budgeting, saving, investing, and labor market topics.
Jerusalem, 23 February, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Starting in the 2026-27 school year, the financial education program will be introduced as a mandatory one-hour program over two years in secondary ־elementary schools, in a phased implementation: in the coming school year, the program will be implemented for ninth-grade students, and in the following school year, it will also be expanded to tenth-grade students.
The program is designed to provide Israeli students with advanced financial literacy, tools for making informed economic decisions, personal and social responsibility, and the ability to conduct themselves independently and critically in a complex and changing economic world.
Under the financial education program, students will learn basic principles of money and saving, interest and inflation, budget building, and making informed economic decisions. Students will be exposed to the world of banking, savings and investment avenues, and the identification of risks and fraud. In addition, topics from the world of the labor market will be studied, including workers’ rights, pay slips, youth employment laws, and the impact of advanced technologies on the world of employment.
