Collaborative projects between Israeli and US researchers have received a $56 million boost from Israel’s Council for Higher Education.

Israel is the latest country to declare its ambitions as an international study destination, announcing it will invest US$120m to double its international student numbers.

Israel's Council for Higher Education has announced a plan to spend $118 million to attract international students, particularly from Asia, to the country.

The case of a US student with a study visa to enter Israel has risen to the country's Supreme Court, after she was detained at the airport.

Israeli organisation Givat Haviva, whose work in The Jewish-Arab Center for Peace earned it a UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, is set to open an international boarding school in September 2018.

Israel’s ministry of education director stressed the importance of English, saying graduates with no English would be ‘handicapped’ in life.

The Israeli Ministry of Education has announced an overhaul of the national English language teaching programs, in a bid to improve spoken English.

The Israeli study abroad market is “growing and still untapped”, the US Commercial Service in Tel Aviv has told The PIE News–a claim backed up by foreign universities and Israeli international education players. Commercial Specialist Alan Wielunski said that Israel had been overlooked for a decade but foreign schools were slowly waking up to its pool of "mature and ready to start" students.