At AMIT, we are educating our children in Israel with vital 21st-century skills, including problem-solving, teamwork, and critical thinking by providing them with a cutting-edge, Jewish values–based education. To read more about how project based-learning, STEAM and Jewish studies go together, read this blog by contributor Rochie Sommer
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.
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.
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.
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.
