Online School & Homeschool in Ra'anana & the Sharon

Online school and international curriculum in Ra'anana

For Ra'anana, Herzliya and Sharon families — the olim heartland, where keeping a route home matters as much as settling in.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Ra'anana and Sharon families. The corridor through Ra'anana, Herzliya, Kfar Saba and Netanya is the heartland of Israel's English-speaking and French-speaking olim communities — families who arrived from Britain, the United States, France, Canada and South Africa, often mid-schooling, and who keep close ties to the countries they came from. Alongside them runs a technology and corporate corridor with an internationally recruited workforce. The common question in both is the same: how does a child keep a record that reads back home? We teach exactly that, live, in whichever hours suit.

Challenges Ra'anana & the Sharon families face

Families arriving mid-curriculum from British, American, French, Canadian and South African systems.
Strong demand for international qualifications and few local places.
Children who may return abroad for university and need a readable record.
Home education requires an annual Ministry permit and the child must meet system standards.
Time zone: Israel is one hour behind us in winter and exactly level in summer.

Why Ra'anana & the Sharon families choose Smartious

A record that reads where you came from: UCAS reads A-Levels natively; American, French, Canadian and South African universities read them and the IB directly. For an olim family that is the practical answer to the question they actually have.
French and English both examined: Cambridge French for the francophone community and English Language and Literature throughout — both as formal qualifications rather than household languages.
Continuity for a mid-curriculum arrival: A child who has just changed country, language and school system keeps one pathway instead of starting a third.
The closest clock we have: One hour behind in winter, level in summer — after-school, mid-morning or evening, whichever fits your week.
Honest about the permit: We cannot obtain or influence a home-education permit; that is between the family and the Ministry.

The national framework applies across the Sharon: education is compulsory under the Compulsory Education Law of 1949 and its amendments, from age three to fifteen inclusive or until ten years of schooling are completed, and home education is permitted by annual permit from the Ministry of Education. A permit runs for one school year only and the approved child must meet the standards set by the educational system; the Director General's directive holds that students of compulsory education age belong within the institutional educational framework. In practice the Ministry approves the great majority of applications, and policy since 2009 has allowed home education where the family fulfils state requirements, which the Supreme Court noted applies to most applicants. Families have reported being summoned to Ministry tribunals over concerns including socialisation, with permission potentially revoked — worth knowing when planning, because renewal is annual. One further point for olim families specifically: parents may choose the educational stream but not the specific school, since the local school board refers children in accordance with social integration policy, which frequently surprises newcomers. Smartious is not a Ministry of Education recognised institution, issues no Israeli qualification and does not teach toward the Bagrut.

Smartious delivers to Sharon families online; the live programme is complete without in-person supplementation.

Live online via Smartious LMS across our full teaching day, with every session recorded.

The Sharon corridor through Ra'anana, Herzliya, Kfar Saba and Netanya is the heartland of Israel's English-speaking and French-speaking olim communities, alongside a technology and corporate corridor with an internationally recruited workforce — with strong demand for international qualifications and few local places. Israel runs IST (UTC+2), moving to IDT (UTC+3) in summer.

Family situations we work with

English-speaking olim from the UK, US, Canada and South Africa.
French-speaking olim communities across the Sharon and Netanya.
Technology and corporate corridor households with international staff.
Students who arrived mid-curriculum and do not want to restart.
Families whose children will apply to universities abroad.

Ra'anana & the Sharon communities and nearby areas

Ra'anana · Herzliya · Kfar Saba · Netanya · Hod HaSharon · Even Yehuda · Ramat HaSharon

Common questions from Ra'anana & the Sharon families

We made aliyah from London or New York — how does our child keep a route back?

With an internationally examined record. UCAS reads Cambridge A-Levels natively, and American, French, Canadian and South African universities read A-Levels and the IB directly. That runs alongside the Israeli record rather than replacing it.

We are a French-speaking family — can French be examined?

Yes. Cambridge French runs alongside the English-medium core as a formal qualification, and French universities read the record routinely.

Can we choose our child's school here?

Parents may choose the educational stream but not the specific school — the local school board refers children in accordance with social integration policy. It surprises many newcomers, and it is one reason families look at supplementary international teaching.

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What parents say

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