Students from the AMIT Bellows Ulpanat Noga last week toured the Knesset and took part in the festive opening of its winter session.
As part of their civics studies, the 12th-grade students watched speeches from the plenum and then gained a deeper understanding of the legislative process. The girls were invited to attend a committee meeting on children’s rights as well as a special meeting about the “Yemenite children affair,” the disappearance of hundreds of babies and toddlers of new immigrants to the newly founded state of Israel, between 1948 and 1954.
The students also met with Likud MK Nurit Koren, who described for them how she entered politics and explained how she got involved in forming the special committee about the missing Yemenite children.
They also met with Shira Weinberg, an alumna from the first graduating class of the ulpana. Trained as a lawyer, Weinberg now works at the Kohelet Policy Forum, which strives to secure Israel’s future as the nation-state of the Jewish people, to strengthen representative democracy, and to broaden individual liberty and free-market principles in Israel, according to its website.
She told them about her work with various Knesset committees.
Iris Eliyahu, principal of the ulpana, said that this special visit was part of the school’s effort to teach girls about social involvement and mutual responsibility. “The girls experienced, in an unmediated fashion, public action for the benefit of the Jewish people,” she said.
