AMIT Kfar Blatt is no ordinary school. Rather, it is a unique and multi-dimensional environment, a youth village for at-risk teens from Petach Tikva. It includes residences called mishpachtonim—from the Hebrew word for family—for students who live with surrogate families.
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Marcelle Machluf shares a background much like the majority of AMIT students. She grew up in Ashdod facing a trio of challenges—sexism and the economic and cultural challenges—of being from an immigrant family and living in the periphery.
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Empowering its students is a key element to AMIT Nordlicht’s success in helping at-risk youth find their strengths and turn their lives around. The students at AMIT Nordlicht Religious Technological High School come to this school after dropping out of more mainstream schools—or being thrown out.
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AMIT Florin Taman Junior and Senior Hight School for Boys won the prestigious SpaceLab competition, run by the Ramon Foundation. Their project experiment will be tested in outer space! The school is located in the Northern most part of Israel, and many of the students come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Given the location of the school and some of the challenges the students and their families face, this achievement is all the more impressive. Over 100 teams participated in the competition and 17 reached the finals, of whom four were chosen as winners of the competition including the AMIT Tzfat team.
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Last week, we learned just how “out of this world” AMIT is. The Rimon Foundation SpaceLab is a two-year hands-on research program open to 8th and 9th grade students in the U.S. and Israel. The overall goal is to learn about science through the prism of space studies. The participants compete to develop and submit an experiment to the International Space Station. And, this year, with over 120 schools taking part, (7 AMIT schools), AMIT Yeshiva Tzfat took first place. This means that Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe will conduct their experiment in space.
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AMIT President Audrey Axelrod Trachtman recently appeared on an i24 News broadcast and spoke about the innovative 21st-century educational approach AMIT has implemented throughout our 104 schools in Israel. In partnership with the American Zionist Movement, the i24 News broadcast featured several Zionist organizations.
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Yesterday’s presidential inauguration was an ordinary event in the course of American history. But it became remarkable against the backdrop of the violence experienced at the Capitol and the continuing toll from COVID. And for me, one aspect that made it even more remarkable was listening to Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet laureate ever to create and recite a poem at an inauguration. One could not help but be struck by her confidence, passion, professionalism, creativity. So the question, is, how do we instill those types of skills in all of our students?
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March and April 2020 saw the early, chaotic days of Coronavirus in Israel. The country and especially medical staff experienced a dangerous shortage of protective equipment and masks. In the south, the AMIT B’Levav Shalem Robotics Team in Yeruham decided to partner with the Yeruham Science Center to help solve the problem—by producing masks themselves.
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