AMIT Ramle: Dream Big, Joy And Happiness, Cooking With Love, Enjoy Every Moment

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It is hard not to come away from a visit to AMIT Ramle Technological High School without a sense of tremendous admiration for the educational work being carried out there. Reflecting the city’s mixed ethnic and low socioeconomic background, the student population consists entirely of young people with multiple needs – emotional, psychological, financial, and physical. “We do not accept good students,” affirms principal Yizhar Afgan, “we only accept students with special needs or difficulties.”

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Engineer To Educator

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It is not every day that a high flyer from the world of start-ups and the armaments industry gives up everything to take over the helm of a small high school in a distant development town. But this is exactly what 46-year-old Guy Dekel did last year, when he resigned his position as team director at Israel’s prestigious Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in order to become the new principal of AMIT Karmiel, a co-ed high school of just 256 students. After having led the team that developed Israel’s first marine USVs (unmanned service vehicles), which are now patrolling the shores of the country from north to south, Dekel is busy dealing with class schedules, curricula, teachers and students—and, on the day I met him, ordering parquet flooring for a new hip-hop room he plans to create at the school.

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Training For A Lifetime

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According to a 2014 report by the Institute for the Study of War, Israel’s Air Force is the best in the world.

“Israel has space assets, advanced fighter jets, hi-tech armed drones, and nuclear weapons. Its air force has incredibly high entry and training standards,” the study noted. So who are the young people being trained to keep the Air Force up and running at such high international standards? Observe AMIT Hammer Rehovot Pre-Army Junior College, which opened its doors in September 2014 to a class of 24 eager students, and now has sixty young men enrolled in an intensive and unique training program that combines technology, Torah and preparation for life.

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