
AMIT War Update: News From Israel
These past days have brought with them a great deal of uncertainty, but also many moments that remind us of the strength and spirit within our AMIT community.

These past days have brought with them a great deal of uncertainty, but also many moments that remind us of the strength and spirit within our AMIT community.

These past days have brought with them a great deal of uncertainty, but also many moments that remind us of the strength and spirit within our AMIT community.

Three students from AMIT Bar Ilan Gush Dan High School recently found themselves facing a challenge.

Get a sneak peek at the ongoing progress at the Gabel & Straus Family Campus at AMIT Kfar Batya.

AMIT Israel Spotlight Session #2: AMIT’s Community of Co-Ed and Secular Schools – Bridging Divides, Building Community

Students at AMIT Sutker Modiin High School for Boys experienced a particularly challenging game of basketball recently – a basketball game on wheels.

Last week AMIT Hammer Rehovot Jr. & Sr. High School for Boys held a Bar Mitzvah ceremony for boys with autism from the local Lotem Special Education School.

Congratulations to David Lev Ran, a Yeshivat AMIT Amichai 8th grade student, who won the Rotary Club sponsored young orators competition in Rehovot.

I touched down in Israel as wildfires were burning around the country, affecting AMIT schools in multiple communities.

As part of the Israel Space Agency project for a select group of teens, Yeshivat AMIT Amichai students met with French astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier, who was a member of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia space expedition in 1996.

Yeshivat AMIT Amichai Rehovot students were selected to participate in the flagship project of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries and the Tasiida Organization.

“I’m coming home” is truly the way I feel each time I enter Yerushalayim. Just set me loose to walk and wander for hours and nothing makes me happier.

Congratulations to Aviad Kadori, an 11th grader at AMIT Kiryat Malachi High School, who was democratically elected by his peers as Kiryat Malachi City Student Council Chair.

AMIT Kiryat Malachi junior high school students hosted a group of young Americans participating in the Bnei Akiva youth movement’s year in Israel.

The basketball team at Yeshivat AMIT Amichai Rehovot recently packed food baskets – instead of shooting baskets – for needy families in Rehovot and nearby communities.

Surrounding the core of identity and values of a school, we have identified five additional components, and my upcoming posts will each delve into one of these components.

Congratulations to Etai Azaria, a 12th grade student at AMIT Wasserman Beersheva High School, who won second place in the religious education Physics Olympiad held at the Jerusalem College of Technology- Lev Academic Center (JCT) in Jerusalem.

A recent field trip at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon, Mateh Yehuda, was all about making connections with others in Israeli society.

I am honored and excited to be chairing the AMIT mission celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem.

Veteran news anchorman and television presenter Yaakov Eilon recently visited the media and film track at AMIT Kfar Ganim Yeshiva High School in Petach Tikva.

A graduate of AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan, Ramat Gan, was one of the recent graduating cadets of the Israel Air Force’s flight academy course.

Students at Ulpanat AMIT Dyckman in Beersheva read about the fundraising efforts of students from another AMIT school, AMIT Society and Law track, of AMIT Gwen Straus High School in Kfar Batya, Raanana, on the AMIT Network’s Facebook page and decided to join in and raise funds as well.

Students of the AMIT Sderot Religious High School Ulpana track, in cooperation with the mothers of the city, prepared homemade sfenj, a North African doughnut cooked in oil, during Hanukkah for soldiers serving in southern Israel.

AMIT Atidim Or Akiva students are again on their way to the red carpet! A film made by the film and communications track students was selected for the international competition of student films, which will be held in Hollywood this month.

Gil Caplan, a seventh grader at AMIT Gwen Straus Science Jr. and Sr. High School, Kfar Batya, and his sister Noa, who is a year younger and a sixth grader at AMIT Noam Elementary School, Kfar Batya, recently celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs together.

Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein visited the AMIT Evelyn Schreiber Ulpana in Tzfat as part of the Connecting to the Knesset project.

AMIT Wasserman Beer Sheva and the Orim School of Special Education won the Israel Teachers’ Union Education Award for their collaboration and contribution to the community.

A delegation of 25 principals from South Korea visited AMIT Sde Hemed Elementary School in Maaleh Adumim.

Upon realizing the scope of the damage caused by wildfires raging throughout Israel, AMIT Network students, faculty and administration set out to offer relief and assistance in a numerous ways.

Now that the lockdown is over and Israelis can move about outside of their homes, but schools are not yet open for in-person learning, the administration of AMIT Wasserman Torah, Arts and Sciences Junior and Senior High School for Girls in Maaleh Adumim decided to get creative in their outreach to their home-bound students. They rented an ice cream cart and walked around the city’s neighborhoods, handing out ice cream treats to students, teachers and teachers’ children. They also distributed Parashat HaShavua worksheets for students to discuss around their families’ Shabbat tables, and kits for a mother-daughter activity centered on the upcoming yartzheit of Rachel Emanu (Rachel the Matriarch).
Ordinarily, kids don’t look that thrilled when school restarts in the fall. But this year, as Aviv, Amit, Esther, and Yoel describe, it felt great to get back!

How do we make the education system relevant to the 21st century, especially during the days of corona? At the AMIT Educational Network, which developed a new and innovative pedagogical language, education has focused on independent learning in digital environments for the past several years.

This article about AMIT was recently published in the Israeli newspaper Mekor Rishon.
Among all the difficulties that the coronavirus has brought, there is one area where it forces us to make a change that maybe for the better. The virus is forcing the education system—and others—to connect to the 21st century and adapt to the contemporary world. All at once, teachers and students were separated from the desks and chairs, the blackboards and chalk, and were required to produce alternatives.

This article was published on Sunday, August 23 in The Marker, Israel’s leading financial newspaper that is part of Ha’aretz. The article features three municipalities and the AMIT Network as leading innovative and groundbreaking initiatives in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Like all things that were abruptly interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the year in Israel for Midreshet AMIT students ended in March. The students left Israel and went back home. But their learning didn’t stop. The students continued studying with their rabbis and teachers via Zoom from thousands of miles away. The distance didn’t shake the warm connection they developed for one another or the profound impact Midreshet AMIT had on their lives.
In this four-part blog series, Midreshet AMIT student Ariella Berman shares her Reflections on the AMIT Staff.