The AMIT network has successfully helped two generations of immigrants from Ethiopia and the countries of the former Soviet Union overcome linguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and academic hurdles on the path to becoming fully contributing members of Israeli society.
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Israel’s Ofaimme Farm for Sustainable Agriculture brings the “Land of Milk and Honey” to life with fresh organic goat milk, honey from their beehives, and a variety of crops and animals grown by Hedai Offaim, his family, and a dedicated group of farmers and volunteers.
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How does a schoolteacher convey a values-based education? Subjects such as math are governed by indisputable numbers, equations, and figures, whereas a lesson in values requires a different approach. We have been focusing on students and how they implement AMIT’s idea of chessed and community during their summer vacations, by volunteering in many different capacities. But where are they learning their values? One answer is by watching their teachers act as role models, in and out of the classroom.
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“We’re on the way to the hospital to deliver games and breakfast, and to bring some joy.”
For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live.
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“I loved it so I continued.”
For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live. The continuance of this lesson is paramount, however, mostly because those in need are the first to ‘go without.’ Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight how our students have adapted and are spending their summer break.
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For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live. The continuance of this lesson is paramount, however, mostly because those in need are the first to ‘go without.’ Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight how our students have adapted and are spending their summer break.
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“When everyone was in quarantine, we had a huge house with fields, swings, and a trampoline”
Read an Interview With Evatar Shaki, Director Of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled In Gilo.
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According to the Ministry of Education, the percentage of Bagrut eligibility at AMIT Bet Ashkelon Jr. and Sr. High School continues to climb and has now reached 85%! This is a huge increase from three years ago when the rate was only 50%. In addition, 35 students received certificates of social involvement excellence.
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Nine students from all over the country won the national Creative Torah competition run by the National Religious Education system, in which students are required to write research articles combining some aspect of Jewish law with a modern issue. Three of those nine students came from AMIT schools.
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After three years of hard work, a project in software engineering in both AMIT B’levav Shalem Yeshiva High School, Yerucham, and Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel, has successfully produced two nanosatellites. Project TEVEL allows students to build working satellites that are then launched into space. An exciting graduation ceremony was held this week in Netanya in the presence of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen, and the director of the Israeli Space Agency, Avi Blasberger.
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