Rabbi Shalom Malool, the head of Yeshivat AMIT Ashdod, said that his heart was “filled with pride and prayer—pride in the first graduating class that will serve as a guidepost for those that follow, and prayer for the success of the graduates in whatever they choose to do.”
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Yair Ben Yishai attended Yeshivat AMIT B’Levav Shalem. When he became a full-fledged volunteer for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency services, he arrived at the home of Maria Schechtman, an elderly Holocaust survivor, who had died alone one night. Then Yair made sure she received a proper burial.
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Chananel Vaknin, a 7th grader at the AMIT High School in Maale Adumim, suffers from a rare lung disease. His classmates decided to buy him an electric mobility scooter as part of a school project. The students raised more than NIS 15,000. They used the extra funds to install a special mode so that he could use the scooter on Shabbat.
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A group of students from the AMIT Yehuda Jr. and Sr. High School in Afula received the “President’s Award for Volunteerism” in a special ceremony at the President’s Residence. The 11th-graders organized many successful chesed projects over the last three years.
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The IDF’s Manpower Directorate published its annual ranking of cities and schools that “contribute more” to military service—meaning that their recruits join combat units and serve as officers. Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon ranked No. 4 out of all the boys’ schools in Israel (religious and secular), with a 100% enlistment rate.
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About 50 students voluntarily signed up for the program and come to school every day. They enjoy breakfast together and then take part in different activities, all of which are aimed at improving their English.
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The team from AMIT HaOfek in Or Akiva designed a control system to monitor the various stages of ice cream production. They beat 170 other teams from across Israel to take the No. 2 spot.
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The robotics team from AMIT Dvir Junior and Senior High School for Boys recently toured the Rehovot branch of Applied Materials, whose “innovations make possible the technology shaping the future,” according to the company.
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Assaf Rappaport, head of research and development at Microsoft Israel, recently said that the greatest missed opportunity in Israeli high-tech is the lack of women—they account for less than 20% of the high-tech workforce. Amnon Eldar, AMIT Director General, explains what the network is doing to combat that phenomenon.
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When a group of girls from the AMIT Ramle Technological High School, one of the network’s vocational schools, couldn’t find summer jobs, they created an “escape room” at the school that they called “Escape from the Stigmas.” To escape, participants went on a scavenger hunt for letters that form the words respect, love, acceptance, and others. The room was such a hit that the girls had to extend its hours of operation.
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