
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

AMIT Yehuda Afula students recently decided to show their gratitude to the school’s devoted maintenance team.

The Ethiopian Jewish holiday Sigd was celebrated at a number of AMIT Network schools. Sigd is a holiday that commemorates the giving of the Torah, renews the community’s covenant with G-d, and promotes the community’s feeling of unity.

The seniors at AMIT Bar Ilan Netanya High School decided to mark their return to school after the holidays with a good deed and organized a blood drive at school.

Excellence programs at AMIT Ma’alem Adumim High School for Boys are gaining momentum, and more students are enrolled than ever before.

AMIT Dvir Beit Shemesh took to the outdoors to learn more about the history and nature of Israel.

AMIT Tzemach HaSadeh Elementary School in Maaleh Adumim is implementing a unique elective program.

Members of the mediation team at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon, Mateh Yehuda, were the representatives of religious education at the National Mediation Conference held at Tel Aviv University.

The students of AMIT Shachar Beit Shemesh High School for Girls made an appearance on Minister of Education Naftali Bennett’s Facebook page.

The AMIT Network administration visited the Yitzkah Rabin Center this week, ahead of Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day later in November.

Dozens of students, alumni, parents and teachers from AMIT Gwen Straus Science High School, Kfar Batya, celebrated Simchat Torah with patients and their families at Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital in Raanana.

Brenda Horwitz-Prawer, principal of AMIT Wasserman High School for Girls in Maale Adumim was recognized for by the Chaim BePlus Organization at a ceremony that took place at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Congratulations to the first class of AMIT Rehovot Pre-Army Technology Junior College Program! All twenty of the young men, currently doing their military service in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), have qualified for certification as electronics and computer practical engineers.

Israel’s Ministry of Education has publicly recognized 277 junior and senior high schools throughout Israel for their integrity, values and achievement.

Tal Shavit, the science coordinator at AMIT Hatzor HaGlilit Jr. & Sr. High School won the outstanding teacher award sponsored by World ORT Kadima Mada and the Ministry of Education.

This summer, two AMIT Bet Ashkelon High School students won the mayor’s award for young adult excellence and community involvement for their significant contribution to the Ashkelon community.

Amit Suleiman, a student at AMIT Gwen Straus Science High School, Kfar Batya, won the national Talmud competition.

Unity Day was inspired by the sense of unity and solidarity that engulfed the Jewish world at the time of the kidnapping of Eyal Ifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel.

AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan students won the national junior high school cyber competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education.

For the first time, teens with disabilities will be able to find summer jobs like everyone else – thanks to the students of AMIT Renanim in Raanana.

Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shumel students are devoting part of their summer vacation to learning something new, including self-defense and first aid.

I did not know anything about Yerucham except that it is located in the Negev and I was blown away by what is happening at several AMIT Schools.

This summer students from AMIT Kfar Blatt Petah Tikva Youth Village took time out of their summer vacation to pay their respects to Bessie Gotsfeld, z”l, the founder of AMIT.

Two AMIT students won the prestigious Ilan Ramon Award for Excellence and Leadership this summer. Sharona Passin of AMIT Wasserman High School in Beer Sheva and Shachar Kriaf of AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan in Ramat Gan were among twelve teens from across the country who received this honor.

At Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon in Mateh Yehuda chesed and learning do not end when the school year does. Accompanied by their teacher, Nachshon students spent a day volunteering in Jerusalem where they helped pack food parcels at an organization that provides for needy and sick individuals.

Dori B., a 12th grader at AMIT Mr. & Mrs. Lester Sutker Arts and Sciences Jr. and Sr. High School for Boys in Modiin, won the citywide top volunteer award that was given to him at a recent ceremony honoring teenage volunteers in the city.

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 Mimi Leifer shares her Reflections on Israel.

Officials broke ground recently on the new Gogya school that will be built for AMIT Gutwirth in Sderot, heralding the movement forward and endorsement of educational innovation in Israel following the health crisis.

AMIT Renanim quadrupled the number of students taking the 5-point math bagrut, an impressive mathematical leap by any account and a ticket for its students to go on to study even higher-level math, advanced physics, and other similar disciplines that can open doors in great careers for their future.

With all the pomp and circumstance that can be mustered, the first graduating class at AMIT Elaine Silver Junior College completed their studies and received their computer technician certificates.

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 Atara Globus shares her Reflections on the Volunteer Experience.