Families
Carmei Gat with kids
Carmei Gat is full of young families: dozens of gans, new primary schools that add a grade each year, and a playground in almost every part of the neighbourhood. Registration for gan and first grade is online each January and February, and the city matnas runs after-school programmes, chugim and a gymboree.
Families
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7 steps, in the order most people take them.
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Register for gan and first grade
For 2026-27, gan and 1st-grade registration ran online from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2026. Dates for 2027-28 were not yet published on 9 Oct 2026; expect a similar window in January 2027. Gan questions go to Mercaz Merian on 08-6812368.
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Choose a school
Kiryat Gat has state, state-religious and Haredi schools. Several Carmei Gat primary schools are new and add a grade each year, and there is no religious boys' high school in the neighbourhood yet (community site). The Education Department is at 4 Mishol Paz St (08-6874601).
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Hebrew help for oleh children
Schools give new-immigrant pupils separate Hebrew lessons (sha'ot olim), often starting after the autumn holidays. The Ministry of Education's olim department is on 02-5603620.
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After-school care (tzaharon)
The matnas network runs tzaharonim inside schools for grades 1-3 until 16:30 with a hot lunch; 2026-27 registration closed on 18 Aug 2026, after which places are by availability. Customer service: Matnas Carmei Gat 08-6252296.
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Chugim and the gymboree
Matnas Carmei Gat (4 Nofech St) runs dance, gymnastics, karate, capoeira and bike clubs. Its gymboree for ages 4 months to 6 years is open Sun-Thu 10:00-19:00 (25 NIS a child).
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Youth movements
Bnei Akiva, Tzofim and Maccabi Tzair have Carmei Gat branches; most groups meet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
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Parks and the Sportek
The Carmei Gat Sportek is free and open daily (Fridays until an hour before Shabbat), with courts, a skate area and playgrounds; the paid iClimb climbing and rope park is inside it.
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Guides
Read next
- Schools and gans in Carmei GatRegistration dates, the schools inside Carmei Gat, the new schools adding a grade a year, what's missing (a religious boys' high school) and who to call at the education department.
- Things to do in and around Carmei GatSportek, climbing and parks in Carmei Gat, Park Paz and Hurvat Patot in Kiryat Gat, and the caves, tels and forests of the Lachish region.
- Health funds, urgent care and hospitalsAll four kupot in Carmei Gat and Kiryat Gat, doctors who list English, Terem and the evening clinics, and an honest note on which hospital you'd be taken to.
- Your first week in Carmei GatWho to call and where to go in your first week in Carmei Gat: the 106 hotline, the absorption offices, Misrad HaPnim, Bituach Leumi, arnona, the post office and the numbers to save.
Good to know
The community site recommends the Ropes park near Gat Center in the afternoons and the Makolet park on Shabbat afternoons, when many English-speaking families meet there.
Community groups
Where people talk
- Carmei Gat Community (Facebook group)Facebook · Group admins (not named on the source page)
- Carmei Gat Community website ('Speak to a local')Website or forum · Carmei Gat residents (volunteers)
- Carmei Gat Info (Facebook group)Facebook · Group admins (not named on the source page)
- Carmei Zion shul (Facebook page)Facebook · Carmei Zion
- Carmei Zion shul (Instagram)Other · Carmei Zion
- Chabad of Carmei Gat (Facebook page)Facebook · Chabad of Carmei Gat
Day plans
Ready-made days
Source
- qiryat-gat.muni.il (opens in a new tab)
- qiryat-gat.muni.il (opens in a new tab)
- nbn.org.il (opens in a new tab)
- matnaskg.org.il (opens in a new tab)
- matnaskg.org.il (opens in a new tab)
- matnaskg.org.il (opens in a new tab)
- qiryat-gat.muni.il (opens in a new tab)
- matnaskg.org.il (opens in a new tab)
- carmeigatcommunity.com (opens in a new tab)
This page was written for Carmei Gat from the sources above.
