http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Dovrat

The government-appointed Dovrat Commission, led by Dovrat, concluded in 2004, that the key to improving Israeli education is not more money but better-quality teaching. The recommendations included a reform giving school principals the right to fire bad teachers and reward good ones with higher pay. These moves have been blocked by Israel’s teachers’ unions, which have paralyzed schools with a series of long strikes, mostly blocking the proposed reforms.