As we bid farewell to 2020 and enter 2021, we want to take a moment to express our tremendous gratitude for showing up, despite all the challenges and hardships. YOUR support helped make this past year a successful one for more than 41,000 children, 70% of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds. It wasn’t an easy year, but with your help, AMIT children continued to receive the most innovative Jewish values-based education whether they were learning in class, or remotely from their homes.
Because of YOU, AMIT has been at the forefront of providing a holistic approach to our students that gives every child the opportunity to reach their full potential and propel them into the next decade with the confidence, knowledge, and leadership skills that will keep Israel strong and moving forward.
Some Highlights YOU Made Possible!
This year, as COVID made educating our students much more difficult, with your support we:
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Purchased and distributed 4,000 computers to our students
Enrolled 650 teachers in professional courses
Evaluated our long-distance learning system with 6,000 students
Created partnerships with 50 industry experts, now mentors to AMIT students
Visited thousands of student homes to ensure our students and their families were managing- Midreshet AMIT students created a spectacular Hanukkah celebration for at-risk children who live at AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled, a surrogate home. Parents of the students and alumni donated more than $10K to put on a memorable chagigah. Read more.
- See how AMIT principals worked very hard to prepare for the start of the new school year and did anything and everything imaginable to keep our students and teachers safe. See how.
- In the early spring with the onset of COVID-19, AMIT pivoted quickly to classes on the beach, filming live classes, virtual team classes and finding new ways to bring education to our students. Read more.
- AMIT Elaine Silver Junior College’s first class graduated with computer technician certificates. It is the first co-ed computer training college that helps young women enter the growing technology field. Read more.
- Last spring, Daniel, from AMIT Ashdod Yeshiva, led a nationwide effort to bring senior citizens food and medicines. With schools shut down, he recruited his friends and classmates to help people in isolation. Read more.
- AMIT faculty determined who needed food vouchers, counseling, and computers, and then provided them to students and their families. AMIT Kiryat Malachi students personify many from disadvantaged communities. See how.
- AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled, a surrogate-family home, was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for education at the 17th Jerusalem Conference honored for its decades-long work with some of Israel’s most vulnerable children. Read more.
- AMIT Gwen Straus Jr. and Sr. Science High School for Boys in Ra’anana won first place at the Ramon Foundation’s SpaceLab competition in the technology category. Twenty-three schools from around the country competed in the finals. Read more.
- Out of 20 different schools across the country, four AMIT high schools were named outstanding by Madlan, an urban insight company that tracks real estate trends, school rankings, and other information on Israeli cities. Read more.
