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AMIT, which was recently named the #1 educational network in Israel, is leading an educational revolution. Here’s how AMIT got to where it is today and why it’s so successful.
AMIT, which was recently named the #1 educational network in Israel, is leading an educational revolution. Here’s how AMIT got to where it is today and why it’s so successful.
What sets AMIT apart from other educational networks in Israel? That question was the driving force behind a whirlwind mission to Israel that Joel Silberman and Liron Yadin, AMIT’s new associate regional directors for Florida and Los Angeles, and their staffs took part in over four jam-packed days in October.
AMIT’s Gogya teacher-training center, which opened nearly five years ago, has already brought innovative, forward-thinking changes to the way the students at our 110 schools learn. Now it has gone a step further in its goal of preparing AMIT students for the 21st century by opening an on-site “academy of entrepreneurship and innovation.”
AMIT students from several schools were chosen to take part in a special program with Google Israel called “Mind the Gap,” which aims to encourage young women to develop an interest in computer science and increase the number of women in the tech industry.
By Shoshanna Solomon, Times of Israel
A team of 16- and 17-year-olds at an AMIT Yeshiva High School in the outskirts of Jerusalem has set up a startup company to develop a wrist band that aims to help keep beach-goers safe from drowning.
Tomer Segev vividly remembers the day about 10 years ago when his parents told him and his sisters they were getting divorced.
The Israeli Army’s Unit 8200—an elite intelligence corps responsible for cyber security and code decryption—has been called “Israel’s secret startup machine” because so many of its veterans have launched successful startups or gone on to work in Silicon Valley.
By the time Hadas (Addis) Malada made it to Israel at age 4, after a grueling journey from Ethiopia that included walking on foot for weeks with her parents to Sudan and a stay at a refugee camp there, almost no one thought she would survive.
And just like that, summer is over. I’m starting to smell that fresh, crisp fall air and the nights have that slight chill that wraps me like a warm sweater.
In June 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin made a remarkable speech, in which he warned that Israeli society is divided into four “tribes”—ultra-Orthodox, national religious, secular, and Arab—that are increasingly growing apart.