The Education Ministry seems not to have learned a lesson from the severe shortage of qualified teachers at all levels in the school system and the plans of many of them to quit and go into another profession. Those educators who remain are overburdened – especially as a result of the Gaza war.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the University of Haifa during the Israel-Hamas war reveals that a teacher’s subjective sense of stress and helplessness is a far stronger predictor of burnout than their actual physical exposure to war-related events.
By surveying 329 Jewish and Arab educators, the research identified “cognitive reappraisal” – the ability to mentally reframe difficult situations, as a vital protective factor that lessens the impact of war exposure on…