(Haipo) – A serious incident of violence that occurred today, Friday, November 7, 2025, at an elementary school in Haifa, joins a chain of worrying cases of physical and verbal violence in educational institutions in the city and across the country. A student was injured during a fight involving three children, was taken to hospital for medical treatment, and the police have opened an investigation. The incident sparked angry reactions from students, teaching staff and the school administration, and led to the opening of a comprehensive educational and disciplinary process.
A fight between students ended in serious injury and a police investigation
According to reports from the school, the fight broke out between three students during the school day. One of them was injured and evacuated by MDA teams for medical treatment. Students who witnessed the incident described a difficult scene because of the blood that was spilled, and it was difficult to clean up. Another student added: "This is not the first incident. There was a fight last week too."
The provincial Ministry of Education said they are taking the incident very seriously.
"Immediately after the incident, an in-depth educational and disciplinary process took place with the student, with the aim of clarifying the seriousness of the act and drawing lessons from it. In addition, it was decided to hold an educational committee with the participation of representatives of the district, the local authority and the school, in order to build a systemic intervention plan that will prevent similar incidents from recurring in the future and strengthen the sense of security and responsibility among the students in the class."
The incident joins a worrying increase in violence in Haifa schools.
The incident at the school is not an isolated incident. In recent weeks, there has been a worrying increase in incidents of violence at schools in and around Haifa. Just this week, an indictment was filed against a resident of Kiryat Bialik for assaulting a teacher at the school where his son attends. According to the indictment, the father arrived at the school, forcibly removed his son from the classroom, returned to the scene, approached the teacher and spat at her.
The incident in Kiryat Bialik highlights the importance of maintaining school entry procedures. According to a circular from the Director General, parents are only allowed to enter school grounds if they have been invited by the administration or teaching staff, and only when accompanied by a staff member. The purpose of the procedures is to prevent incidents of violence by unauthorized visitors. However, in recent years, there have been many cases in Haifa in which parents, siblings, and even grandparents entered schools without permission, and sometimes even attacked students or teachers.
The murder of a student in Kafr Qara illustrates the severity of the situation
Two weeks ago, Mohammed Marazka, a 17-year-old student, was murdered at a school in Kafr Qara by a relative of his, who also attended the school. According to reports, the fight broke out after the killer said to Marazka, "Why are you looking at me?" The school principal said that the student who stabbed him had joined the school only a month earlier, after begging to be accepted. The incident caused a deep shock in the education system and the general public.
Education Minister Yoav Kish expressed his shock at the Kafr Qara incident. Data from recent years indicate a sharp increase in the number of murders in the Arab sector, specifically during Ben Gvir's term in office. The only thing that stood out in his activities was the distribution of weapons to civilians, which created a sense of helplessness and a lack of confidence in the police's ability to deal with the increasing crime.
Many believe that the police are investing a lot of resources in creating a "political police," focused on fighting center-left protesters, while the meaningful, day-to-day work with citizens is neglected. In the run-up to the upcoming elections, it seems that most of the activity is focused on maintaining political support, rather than truly addressing the problems of violence and crime.
Violence in Israeli society
The events in the schools are just an expression of a broader phenomenon of violence in Israeli society. Anyone who watches Knesset debates, plenary sessions, and committees sees ministers and MKs shamelessly cursing and humiliating each other. Parents of the kidnapped who come to the Knesset are met with humiliating treatment and sometimes even physical violence. During demonstrations, public discourse quickly turns into severe physical violence, sometimes disproportionate to the disruption of public order.
The connection between state leadership and public behavior
As always, the fish rots from the head. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government members do not address the public in an attempt to calm the situation, and continue with violent and divisive discourse, the violence only increases. It appears in the Knesset, on the roads, in homes, at demonstrations, and of course in schools. If parents do not educate their children to behave respectfully even when angry, and if they themselves do not set an example of calm behavior towards teaching staff, the situation is expected to worsen.
Recent events highlight the need for a broad systemic response, both from the education system and from local and national authorities. There is a need to increase enforcement, toughen penalties, train teaching staff to deal with extreme situations, and strengthen the connection between schools and the community. Only in this way can a safe, respectful, and protected learning environment be ensured for every student.
This article is not true at all, the writer did not address the other side of the student and right now I would like to explain,
The student who "attacked" the injured student was the one who was threatened. The injured student threatened that if he didn't turn off the air conditioner, he would beat him. The student who "attacked" refused and didn't want to, but the injured student organized a group of children and that student came to hug the student who "attacked" in order to belittle him in front of all the students and beat him to death. The injured student is 80 meters tall and thought he could outsmart a 50-meter-tall boy, so the student who "attacked" beat him up in order to teach him not to mess with him. The injured student received no punishment at all because the school principal is his uncle. And they opened an investigation against the child who "attacked"... It's sad that they made up such a story and in the end turned the victim into the accused.
Michal the instigator – the paragraph about Han Gvir is completely misleading. It is disconnected from all connection to the article. It was inserted in order to mix in your political opinions as 'many believe' 'some think that..'. The perverse and non-factual insights have nothing to do with it. If anything, the police's lack of power is part of the lack of deterrent punishment and the claims of the majority of the group are to tie up the hands of the Neztra and the door to
You hang around criminals in the courts. But it doesn't match your political line, so you didn't include that argument.. Maybe enough with the politicization in the coverage?!
This is partly an opinion column of the radical left and not an article.
Continue to dream of Lapid Golan as Kasif and still form a government.
The sane Zionist people will continue to choose the right.
Yes, as with every "article" of hers, she will expound her political opinions with zero professionalism.
Hahahaha how did bibists and gays start stuttering… sigh
Hey, do you have to push your political agenda into every hole?
What is the connection between Ben Gvir and the current government and the violence in schools that also existed when the left was in power? Ben Gvir is doing commendable things and the violence has nothing to do with the government and its leader.
Enough with the incitement and division of the people.
Come on, what does distributing weapons have to do with school violence?
Ben Gvir's weapons reform has so far prevented many attacks, even though it's hard for you on the left to admit it.
False article! Yavne is a middle and high school. And the incident happened on Thursday. It's all fabrications and lies. And I'm writing this as a student there who witnessed it.
Violent incidents have been, and will be, as long as children are born with mental disabilities, mostly genetic, such as bipolar disorders, emotional regulation problems, and various high-level attention deficit disorders (at a high level, the child is unable to stop his mind's desire to go crazy towards those around him, to hit, to clash with dangerous intensity with those around him, even if he takes sedatives). Instead of excluding people with mental disabilities from regular classes, they are allowed to study in a regular class full of triggers for them to commit serious violence, while they need to be in a small special class with treatment for these disorders, such as emotional psychological psychiatric therapy with calming animals, dogs, horses, rabbits, etc.
Until then, the violence will continue and increase,
Because the brain in these disorders cannot be calmed or self-controlled without medication (which many refuse to take), and requires medication, and then with the assistance of a close assistant for the violent child, including the rest of the treatments for him in a special class as above, or in a special school for people with such disabilities.
Millions in Israel and around the world are born genetically with the above disorders, and placing them in a regular classroom only destroys them, and everyone present with them.
The savings in the education system in placing skilled personnel to treat those with the above disorders leads the mentally disabled to commit serious violence against those around them.
Lawyers, judges, accountants and thousands of other job holders, hundreds of millions of them worldwide and in Israel, with the above disorders, and without taking Ritalin and similar medications combined with psychological and emotional manipulation with animals, would not be able to work and live a "normal" life, and would pose a physical risk to those around them on a daily basis.
People with disabilities are sometimes geniuses, super talented for creativity, but the brain that was born with an internal defect distorts the order of their lives as described above. About 80 percent or more of those with the above disabilities are in prison due to the brain disorders that were not properly treated from childhood, and therefore most of them have fallen into the world of crime, theft, physical violence including murder, and more.
There is no Yavne Elementary School in Haifa. There is a Yavne Elementary School in Kiryat Ata and there is a Yavne High School in Haifa. Where did this happen?
The attempt to create symmetry between the sectors and the events is ridiculous but expected... They blame Ben Gvir as if if there were a left-wing Minister of National Security now, they would be deterred from resorting to violence in the sector.
It's a shame that it's not possible, like in a competition, to ring the bell every time in a text that the left-wing media starts taking a political side instead of reporting events in an informative manner.