AMIT Students Win Prestigious Essay Contest

Two AMIT students were among the top winners of a competitive nationwide essay contest to “Name their Hero.”

Talia Kadosh, an 11th grader at Ulpanat AMIT Or Akiva, and Akivah Amitai, a 12th grader at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon in Mateh Yehuda, are the winners of Israel’s prestigious essay contest (along with Chaim Chaimovich, a 9th grader at the Kfar Yarok Agricultural school).

Home to Fifty-Two Children

Entering the doors of the modest building of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, one immediately feels as if he entered into a parallel little world with its own sense of time, language, energy, and its own set of rules.

Everything about this residential home for Israel’s at-risk youth is designed to offer a familial therapeutic setting, in order to encourage children who have suffered greatly a chance to heal.