Finance Ministry announces that the salaries of kindergarten teachers who do not show up for work on Friday will be docked, and their absence will not be recognized as sick leave.
Federation of Local Authorities launches general strike which will see educational institutions across the country shutting their doors.
35-year-old kindergarten teacher suffers fatal heart attack while tending to seven children in Ashdod.
Parents expressed support for a teacher who had her kindergarten students wear a yellow star on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day.
