Student Chesed Donates 300+ Packages to Needy Families for Holidays
AMIT students turned their school into a factory, preparing over 300 packages to needy families for the holidays.
AMIT students turned their school into a factory, preparing over 300 packages to needy families for the holidays.
AMIT Sutker Arts and Sciences High School for Boys Modiin 11th grade students took the initiative to fundraise for scholarships to enable their fellow classmates in need to participate in a meaningful heritage trip to Poland through selling arba minim (the four species) for the Sukkot holiday.
In preparation for the upcoming Sukkot holiday, AMIT students across the country help build sukkahs for those in need of assistance.
From Yerucham to Space: Yehonatan Amar, an 11th grade student at AMIT Belevav Shalem Yeshiva High School in Yerucham, was chosen to present the Tevel Project (a Hebrew acronym for Students Building Satellites) at a science convention held at Tel Aviv University in front of Ofir Akunis, the Israel Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
Students from the AMIT Renanim Science and Technology High School, Ra’anana advanced science track opened this year with a hands-on activity, “think outside of the box”, an interactive learning experience with experiential boxes mirroring an escape room experience.
David Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, paid a visit to AMIT Sderot Religious High School and met with the school’s Yeshiva track students. Ambassador Friedman shared his memories from school with his friend Hillel Fendel, who is the brother of the head of the Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot; “we made lots of trouble in class,” he recalled. He commended the students and all Sderot residents and shared his prays for the safety of the city. He expressed, “The United States supports you and stands with you. Please continue to carry out Jewish life here in Sderot.”
AMIT Gwen Straus Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Kfar Batya have been recognized as the one of the top schools in the country for their values-based teaching. This is a wonderful achievement for both tracks; the society and law track and the science and technology track which is overseen by director Rabbi Yoni Berlin.
In June, the AMIT “Kipa Bots” robotic team from our high school in Modi’in were among 80 teams from around the world taking part in an international robotics competition in Australia. The competition was the culmination of a year of work in which the students developed a robot that independently solves complex tasks on a special task board.
Zameret Kaniel, a participant of Carmel 6000, a high-tech based national service in partnership with AMIT, won a bronze medal at the 4th International Olympiad of the Metropolises which took place last weekend in Moscow.
Education Minister Rav Rafi Peretz visited AMIT Ashkelon Bet Jr. and Sr. High School recently, telling the students how impressed he was by their high rates of volunteerism and enlistment in the army. Those values are the foundation for excellence and success, he said.