Media

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

Podcast

Faculty of Education podcast, Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Education - episode: The illusion of equality: how local authority budgets widen gaps in education (אשליה של שוויון: כיצד תקציבי הרשויות המקומיות מרחיבים את הפערים בחינוך?, Oct 2026), with Dr. Ruth Meoded. Drawing on our ISF-funded research on fiscal decentralization, we look at what happens when the state shifts part of the responsibility for education funding to local authorities: the large gaps in supplementary education budgets between municipalities in different socioeconomic clusters, why those gaps keep widening over time, how each authority chooses between excellence and equality when dividing its budget, and what a fair funding formula would need to guarantee quality education for every child regardless of where they live.

HaKoteret (הכותרת), Ynet’s daily news podcast with Sharon Kidon - episode: There’s money but no teachers: why doesn’t the education budget reach the classroom? (יש כסף, אין מורים: למה תקציב החינוך לא מגיע לכיתות?, Aug 2026). Israel spends about 6% of GDP on education, well above the OECD average of 4.9%. But to judge whether the budget is big enough, you have to separate its overall size from what actually reaches each student. Israel’s population is very young, with roughly a third of it at compulsory-schooling age, so the budget is divided among many more students and the picture changes. We also talk about teacher pay lagging the OECD, rigid collective agreements, and how cuts that look “equal” on paper widen the gap between the center and the periphery.

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).