A barrage of misfortune for some students spurred the need for radical action. During a single week in the summer of 2017, in the AMIT Jerusalem schools in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, several serious incidents occurred, including a student sent to jail for a year-and-a-half.
A phone call that changed life for Rafi Bistritzer. The voice on the end of the line informed him that he was a recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics 2020, a prestigious international award often a precursor to the Nobel Prize.
When the group of students at the new AMIT Leadership Training Program for Young Women chose an inspirational name for the inaugural class, they set the tone for success.
Sometimes it takes the encouragement of just one person who believes in you and helps you envision your big and bright future to take your life from one place to another—a grand and spectacular vista.
Where hurdles to education once dominated, links of the chain that separated students from potential success have now been joined. And AMIT schools are leading the way.
Untapped potential, like an unplanted seed, can flourish with encouragement, opportunity, nourishment, and love, leading to a confident and successful individual contributing to their nation by serving in a high-level IDF post with a bright future ahead.
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), students from AMIT schools across Israel were treated to a day of ‘female empowerment’ and the chance to hear from young Israeli women who have reached the top of the ladder as hi-tech professionals or entrepreneurs.
There’s much in common between the Samis Foundation and AMIT Children. The two organizations have forged a new partnership.
Space may become the first frontier for some AMIT students after coming to the United States on a once-in-a-lifetime trip and spending a week at the renowned International Camp Kennedy Space Center in Florida during their Hanukkah break.
What does it take for a 15-year-old girl to address the president of her country and exhort the leaders of her beloved nation to fight against discrimination and racism? Courage.
