AMIT Principals In Ashdod

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Taking over the reins at AMIT Yud, a state religious comprehensive high school of 800 students and 105 teachers is 32-yearold Ido Aharonowitz, himself an AMIT high school graduate. Aharonowitz grew up in Rishon LeZion, but because his family wanted him to receive a good academic and religious education, they sent him to the AMIT high school in Rehovot. “I had to take two buses and travel 45 minutes each way but it was worth it,” recalls Aharonowitz. “I studied in a school that imparted moral-religious values and scholastic excellence and I can say today that I am proud to be a graduate of AMIT.”

AMIT Arrives In Ashdod

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When Israel’s Ministry of Education and the Ashdod Municipality realized that the city’s state religious high schools were stuck in a chronic downward spiral of low standards and loss of students to secular schools, they turned to AMIT. The mission: to take over management of Ashdod’s two-state religious comprehensive high schools and to further bolster religious education in the city by establishing a yeshiva high school for boys.