Three weeks ago, barely five days after the rockets stopped falling, I received permission to enter Israel. Every trip to Israel is emotional but this one was even more so. It is hard to be the president of AMIT and not see our students and teachers in person because that is what makes this position a labor of love. After 14 months I was ready.
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On behalf of AMIT, our Board, and all our supporters, we congratulate AMIT past president Debbie Isaac on her appointment as President of the American Zionist Movement (AZM). Debbie is the first woman to lead this organization in over 40 years.
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A few years ago, Hatzor Haglilit’s regional council in the north announced a system-wide revolution which included educational plans, staffing changes, upgrades to infrastructure, increasing budgets, and a general emphasis in all of the municipality’s resources to provide whatever is needed so that students in Hatzor Haglilit would be on par with those in schools in the center of the country.
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Tomer Gertel, a student from Amit Be’er Tuvia, has been chosen as Israel’s representative at the UN International Climate Conference. Tomer, a sophomore, will participate in the conference in three months’ time, in Milan, Italy. Approximately 9,000 candidates from all over the world applied to take part, and only 400 youth were chosen to attend.
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In a show of solidarity and support, AMIT President Audrey Trachtman came to Israel at the first possible moment. She came to see, to meet, and to speak to AMIT students and staff around the country. In a packed schedule of less than a week, Trachtman also made sure to visit with people and cities that were most affected by the recent rockets from Gaza.
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The Tangram program is a program for excellence in math for middle school students run by the Davidson Institute of Science Education of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rechovot. Once a year they have a one-day competition with the participation of all the schools across Israel that are in the Tangram program. This year’s 7th-grade competition was held via zoom. After two hours of competition, the team from Yeshivat AMIT Eliraz in Petach Tikva, led by their teacher Tzvika Leibovitch, won first place!
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Eighth-grade Educator and Head of the Yeshiva Path and Middle School Principal, AMIT Eitan Ma’ale Adumim
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Bible Teacher at AMIT Fred Kahane Technological School in Ashkelon
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AMIT delegation visits home in southern Israel destroyed by rocket attack, meets with family who were miraculously saved not once but twice.
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Andy Goldsmith, AMIT Executive VP, speaks on Kan English News from Sderot, Israel about how AMIT responded to help AMIT families adversely affected by the recent conflict. Many AMIT students’ families live in areas that were under rocket attack and experienced enormous trauma.
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