Shimon Adler

Graduate of Cohort 1, Mandel School for Educational Leadership

Former Director of the Religious Education Administration in the Ministry of Education

He is the former Director of the Religious Education Administration of the Ministry of Education – a position he held for nine years. In this capacity, he worked to increase parents’ confidence in the state-religious education system, while addressing different trends developing in religious Zionism.

Prior to joining the Mandel Leadership Institute's School for Educational Leadership in 1992, Adler served as the principal of a religious girls’ high school in Even Shmuel, a position in which he addressed the challenge of working with students that have difficulty earning matriculation certificates.
During his studies at Mandel, he developed a model for a school that aims to reinforce the strong characteristics of students while ignoring their shortcomings.

Upon completion of his studies at Mandel in 1994, Adler worked to implement his model at a new school he founded and directed - the Amit Hevruta Yeshiva High School in Mazkeret Batya, a high school that caters to students with low scholastic achievement. Four years later Adler was appointed Director of the Religious Education Administration of the Ministry of Education.
 
In 2009, Shimon Adler left his position at the Ministry of Education and is currently a homeroom and Talmud teacher at the Himmelfarb Religious High School for boys in Jerusalem.