Media

Where my research has reached the public - podcast, press, and broadcast. See also: Policy Impact.

Podcast

Bar Daat (בר-דעת), Bar-Ilan University’s official podcast - episode: How much should a teacher earn in Israel? A discussion of teacher salary policy in Israel and whether higher pay actually attracts and retains stronger teachers.

Press

Globes - Op-ed: market mechanisms don’t belong in the education system (May 2022). Argues against importing private-sector market logic into public education.
Globes - Op-ed: paying teachers by student results is neither effective nor right (Feb 2022). A critique of pay-for-performance schemes for teachers.
Ynet - “The strong get stronger”: gaps in local education budgets (2026). Coverage of research (with Dr. Ruth Meoded) showing wealthier municipalities widening their lead in education spending.
Ynet - How much does your municipality invest in your kids’ education? (May 2025). On the correlation between municipal spending and matriculation (bagrut) exam results.
Ynet - Equitable resource allocation and the achievement gap (Nov 2017). Makes the case for differential budgeting to narrow gaps between rich and poor, Jewish and Arab students.
Walla News - “The quiet collapse” of the education system (2026). On teacher shortages and growing inter-municipality inequality, featuring former Minister of Education Yuli Tamir; cites research showing decentralization widens gaps.
Davar - The Treasury’s decentralization plan is destructive (2026). Argues that decentralizing education funding is especially damaging for a country with gaps as wide as Israel’s.
Davar - Gap-reduction funding is allocated without a research basis (2025). On the disconnect between how gap-reduction funds are distributed and what the research actually shows works.
Yediot Ahronot - Achievement gap research with Dr. Yossef Klein (Mar 2016). A Bar-Ilan study finding the achievement gap widened by 15% over a decade despite policy efforts.
Israel Hayom - Achievement gap: the national matriculation examinations case (Nov 2019). An analysis of bagrut results across core subjects (math, English, literature, Tanakh) and what drives the score patterns.
Yedioth/BIU - Achievement gap (Aug 2018).

TV & radio

(Recent broadcast segments are archived via Ifat, a subscription-only Israeli media-monitoring service - listed here for the record rather than as public links.)

Channel 13, המהדורה המרכזית - Aug 24, 2026
Channel 12, חדשות הבוקר - Aug 19, 2026
Channel 13, חדשות היום - Aug 16, 2026
Galei Tzahal, חדשות גל”צ - Aug 16, 2026

Also publicly viewable:

Kan Reshet Bet, Seder Yom (סדר יום) with Keren Neubach - panel on the education budget with MK Miki Rosenthal (Sep 2014).
Kan News (Channel 11) - Why aren’t the education ministry’s billions reaching classrooms? On gaps between education budget allocations and what actually reaches schools.
Dahan Center - Higher education and reducing gaps, panel discussion (2016).
Bar-Ilan University - Financial behavior and consumption habits among children. On financial education and children’s consumer culture.
Additional parental payment to education (Aug 2019).
Talk at Bar-Ilan University: Social Justice and Resource Allocation in Education (צדק חברתי והקצאת המשאבים לחינוך).
Kan Radio - panel discussion on equitable resource allocation and educational outcomes (Aug 2019).
Kan Radio - interview following the release of PISA 2019 results (Dec 2019).