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This study aimed to explore the challenges facing the discovery and care for gifted students in the Negev region from school teachers’ perspectives. The descriptive research method was used for this purpose. A simple random sample of 150 male and female school teachers and counselors in the Negev region was chosen to participate. The researchers built a questionnaire revealing the challenges facing the discovery and care of gifted students, and its psychometric properties were verified. The results revealed that the challenges were respectively: challenges related to school environment; challenges related to teaching strategies; challenges related to the teachers’ qualifications; and challenges related to systems and policies. It also found differences in the levels of challenges due to teachers’ qualifications, type of job, and gender, while there were no differences due to years of experience. The study concluded with recommendations, such as the need to pay attention to the school environment and to link school curricula to the needs of gifted students. (Published abstract)