Education is a basic tool in every society for giving the young generation the tools to integrate into the labor market, to succeed on a personal level both economically and socially, and to contribute to the prosperity of the economy and society as a whole. On this subject our position is excellent in international comparisons.
The rates of those with tertiary-level education aged 25-64 is 45 percent in Israel compared to 25 percent in the OECD countries (as of 2004); the rate of those employed in  academic and technological professions stands at 30 percent in Israel (in 2005) compared to 28 percent in the EU countries. Can we therefore sit back and relax knowing this?