According to what I've just read on Ynet ( http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3474694,00.html), the finance ministry has offered us an eventual 26% increase in salary in exchange for an additional frontal teaching hour for each class plus an additional hour in small groups of about five students (as I understand it, that's per class). So if you work 24 hours (including gmulim -- that's less than 24 frontal hours) and teach 5 classes, you'll be teaching an additional 10 hours a week. According to my fairly good math skills, that's about a 42% increase in hours. So they want to pay us 26% more and have us work 42% more? And keep in mind that few high school teachers actually TEACH 24 hours, as our gmulim are included in those hours. In reality, assuming 4 hours per class, we'd be teaching 50% more hours. So have I understood this correctly??? And the joke is that the government doesn't understand why Ran Erez hasn't agreed to this "deal". Bari