Students from the Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program at the Gloria and Henry I. Zeisel and Family Junior College at Kfar Blatt came in first place in an annual race in memory of an Israeli soldier who was killed in Lebanon in 1994.
Students from fifteen pre-military academies took part in the navigation race, which is divided into group and individual categories, in memory of First Lieutenant Yoav Har-Shoshanim, z”l. This was the 23rd annual race and was held at the nature reserve in Neot Kedumim.
Two teams from the Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program won the group navigation race for the third year in a row, taking both first and second place. This was the first year that students from grades 13 and 14 took part in the competition.
Individual students from the junior college’s pre-army program also swept the individual race, taking the top three spots.
Moshe Costa, who heads the Jewish values component of the Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program, praised his students and said that “they combine preparation for professional and meaningful army service with the development of values leadership in order to maximize their contribution to the nation and the state.”
The Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program at the Gloria and Henry I. Zeisel and Family Junior College is a unique model within the AMIT network that combines the development of a strong Jewish and Zionist identity, with equally strong leadership skills and personal excellence, as well as advanced technological training for technicians and engineers.
The pre-army program’s Jewish values component, led by Costa, provides students with the tools for a meaningful life and army service, while the auto-tech part of the program, under the direction of Moshe Uziel, gives them the technological tools and know-how to enter the army equipped to become officers, which opens the door to successful careers in Israel’s startup and high-tech sectors and beyond.
“Our children are lions,” said Moshe Uziel. “They love the people and land of Israel, and will continue to serve in the army’s Technological and Maintenance Corps with a sense of mission and purpose.”
