Every stage, in order — from the first gan through elementary, high school, yeshiva and kollel, the ulpan for new arrivals, and on to college. With who each is for, where, and how to register. Built for families settling in.
Tiberias was the seat of the great Academy of Tiberias, the home of the Masoretes who fixed the text of the Hebrew Bible, and the place where the Jerusalem Talmud was compiled. Sending a child to school here is the latest chapter of a very old story.
Public kindergartens and elementary schools are assigned by neighbourhood zoning and registered through the Tiberias Municipality Education Department — not chosen freely. New-immigrant families should ask the municipality's Vaad Klita (absorption committee) about ulpan support and the right school. Sector labels below: State general/secular · State-religious (Mamlachti Dati) · Haredi (independent) · All sectors · Olim support.
Ages 0–6 — peutonim (daycare), ganim (kindergartens).
The city's public kindergartens, in three streams — general, state-religious and Haredi — assigned by where you live and registered each winter through the municipality for the coming year. Free from age 3 under Israel's compulsory-education law.
Licensed daycare and home-based groups for infants and toddlers, many subsidised through the Ministry of Labour for working parents. The Chorev network alone runs several preschool programmes across the city.
Municipal education listings →Grades 1–6 (Beit Sefer Yesodi), ages 6–12.
Tiberias runs a full set of zoned primary schools in both the general (Mamlachti) and religious (Mamlachti Dati) streams. Many have a dedicated ulpan room where an ulpan teacher works with new-immigrant children and their parents, and a welcoming Vaad Klita.
The independent Haredi stream — Talmud Torah schools for boys and Beit Yaakov schools for girls, with a heavy Torah curriculum alongside core secular subjects. Tiberias's Beit Yaakov Torah education centre is on Alhadif Street.
Grades 7–12 (Chativat Beinayim & Tichon), ages 12–18.
A branch of the respected Branco Weiss network, known for a personalised, "no child left behind" teaching approach and strong matriculation (bagrut) support.
Vocational and technological high-school tracks — engineering, computing, electronics — under the ORT network, with bagrut plus a technical diploma.
AMAL-network schools (including Nofarim BaGalil) offering science, technology and arts tracks toward matriculation, in the Beit Vegan neighbourhood.
State-religious and ORT Ulpanit high schools for girls — among them Ateret Rachel — combining a full bagrut with religious studies in a single-sex setting.
A yeshiva high school for boys in the Israel Sci-Tech network — Torah study paired with a high technological standard and matriculation, with a Wolfson Kollel learning partnership.
The complete municipal roster of junior-high and high schools — addresses, phones and parent reviews for Branco Weiss, ORT, AMAL, the ulpanot, the yeshiva and the rest.
Municipal school list →Post-high-school Torah study, for one of Judaism's four holy cities.
As a holy city, Tiberias hosts many yeshivot (for single men) and kollelim (for married men), from Lithuanian to Hasidic to Sephardi, several gathered near the tombs of the sages and the Old City. Placement is by community and rosh yeshiva rather than central registration — ask locally or through the religious council.
Post-high-school seminaries for women combine advanced Torah study with teaching and vocational tracks, often linked to the Beit Yaakov and religious-college networks. Several feed directly into local teaching qualifications.
Adult Hebrew language & absorption, the first stop for olim.
Intensive Hebrew courses (Ulpan Aleph and beyond) for new immigrants, funded and arranged through the Ministry of Aliyah & Integration together with the municipality. Start with the municipality's absorption desk, which places you in the right course and connects school-age children to in-school ulpan.
Ministry of Aliyah & Integration →English-language guidance on choosing schools, understanding the streams, and the ulpan support waiting for immigrant children — including which Tiberias-area schools run a dedicated ulpan room and Vaad Klita.
NBN Aliyahpedia →Degrees, teaching qualifications and vocational diplomas.
The north's key college for the whole region — Tiberias, Beit She'an, the Golan and the Jordan Valley. Degrees in engineering (the Achi Racov School of Engineering), business, social sciences, land-of-Israel studies and more, on a lakeside campus at Tzemach with student dormitories. New for 2026: Kinneret is opening a branch inside the city of Tiberias itself, bringing higher education into the centre.
Kinneret Academic College →A regional teaching and education college serving the Galilee and Golan (campus in Katzrin, north-east of the lake) — training teachers, with sport and outdoor-education specialisms.
Ohalo College →Practical-engineering (handasai) and technician diplomas through the Israel Sci-Tech network and regional vocational colleges — a route straight into the Galilee's industry and high-tech employers.
Sci-Tech colleges →Orthodox synagogues only. In Israel synagogues are Orthodox by default — and Tiberias, one of the four holy cities, has many. Below are the landmark and active shuls, then the neighbourhood batei knesset by community.
The Sephardi "Great Synagogue of Tiberias," founded 1742 by Rabbi Chaim Abulafia and rebuilt after the 1759 and 1837 earthquakes and the 1934 flood (present structure 1950). A domed ceiling of six overlapping floral circles, and a basement mikveh fed by the Kinneret itself — dry in low-water years. Services on Shabbat and Chol HaMoed.
The synagogue of the first Hasidim in Tiberias — founded 1786 by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and Rabbi Avraham of Kalisk, rebuilt in 1870 after the 1837 quake. Today used by Breslov Hasidim, alongside the preserved house of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk.
Built by Boyan Hasidim after the 1837 earthquake and left deserted after the War of Independence, the building was restored by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and is once again an active shul in the old courtyard.
An old Sephardi synagogue on the northern side of the courtyard, surviving as a roofed historic structure beside the active shuls — part of the city's 18th–19th-century Jewish revival.
The great blue-domed complex above the hot springs — two adjoining complexes, one Sephardi and one Ashkenazi, each with its own synagogues and yeshivas. One of the most visited prayer sites in the Galilee, busiest at the annual hilula.
A constant place of prayer at the grave of the Rambam and other luminaries including Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, under the flame-like red pergola in the city centre.
The hillside tomb of the second-century sage, with a prayer hall, overlooking the city and the lake.
Not an active shul but the city's oldest — the 4th-century synagogue with its famous zodiac mosaic floor, preserved in the national park (see National Parks).
Most of Tiberias now lives higher up the hill, and the residential neighbourhoods — Kiryat Shmuel, Achva, Beit Vegan, Ramat Egoz, Kiryat Sanz and others — hold dozens of active synagogues across every Orthodox community: Sephardi and Edot HaMizrach, Ashkenazi-Litvish, Hasidic (Sanz, Karlin, Chabad, Breslov and more), and Yemenite. A shul is rarely more than a short walk from any door; ask neighbours or the local religious council for the minyan nearest you and its nusach.