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Teacher Gifts, Delivered in Israel

End-of-year and thank you gifts for a teacher or morah in Israel — sent to the school or the house, with a card from the child.

About Teacher Gifts, Delivered in Israel

Teacher gifts in Israel cluster hard around the end of the school year, and they have a particular constraint: a teacher receiving thirty of them cannot take home thirty cakes. The ones that land well are either small and keepable — a chocolate box, a gift box — or shared with the staffroom on the spot.

The other thing worth getting right is kashrut. A gift going into a school is going to a person who may only eat under a specific hechsher, and each store's supervision is shown on its page so you are not guessing. Put the child's name on the card rather than yours; that is what the teacher actually remembers.

What people usually send

  • A chocolate or gift box a teacher can take home
  • A platter for the staffroom to share
  • Flowers with a card at the end of the year
  • Decorated cookies from a class rather than one child