Chananel Vaknin, a 7th-grader at the AMIT Jr. and Sr. High School in Ma’ale Adumim, suffers from a complicated and rare lung disease. Throughout the day, Chananel needs to be connected to an oxygen tank; until now, he would only leave his home in a wheelchair. Chananel’s classmates decided to surprise him and raised the money to buy him an electric mobility scooter. This was done as part of a school project called “Think Beyond Yourself,” in which the students were encouraged to take on a project to assist others. The students raised more than NIS 15,000 in order to purchase the scooter. They exceeded their goal and used the extra funds to install a special Shabbat mode so that Chananel could use the scooter on Shabbat. Chananel’s friends gave him the scooter at an emotional ceremony attended by students, parents, and school staff.
