
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

Working with partners, AMIT has created four learning centers for evacuees around the country. These locations include Eilat, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv.

As I’m sure you have all heard, there was a multipronged car-ramming and stabbing terror attack earlier today in Ra’anana.

How We Spent Your Money: AMIT’s “Heal the Children” Campaign

Yesterday the AMIT Administration spent a meaningful day in the Gaza Envelope.

This week, nine members of AMIT’s Executive Committee traveled to ten locations across Israel to hear directly from AMIT faculty and students post October 7.

Yesterday marked the one-month anniversary since the massacre on October 7. Amir Kalangel, AMIT’s Director of Gogya, and his platoon sang Ha’Tikvah at Kibbutz Beeri, where so much tragedy took place just 30 days ago. Please see a short video of the tribute.

Dr. Amnon Eldar, Director General, Andy Goldsmith, Executive Vice President, and AMIT professional/lay leaders are traveling across Israel this week to show support the Sderot community and its children – in both spirit and in action.

The video was taken on the day of Nurit’s daughter’s bat mitzvah, which took place in a Jerusalem hotel lobby.

During this very unsettling time, AMIT knows that building resilience and arming our children with skills and coping mechanisms is of key importance.

This weekend, AMIT’s Director General, Amnon Eldar and his executive team traveled around Israel to visit with Sderot evacuees, hear their stories, and activate plans to address the ever-changing needs of Israel and its children.

We are so grateful to everyone who has responded generously to our Sderot emergency campaign. To date, we have raised $820,922.

We are enthusiastic to report that four AMIT schools resumed partial in-person learning. We applaud these principals, who are moving heaven and earth to create some sense of normalcy for their students.

With so much uncertainty as we start the week, AMIT remains steadfast in its mission to help heal those around us.

Over the week as tension on the Northern border increased our troops in the south prepared to enter Gaza. The only comfort we can take for ourselves is hearing of the heroic stories emerging from the depths of hell.

The emotions that many of us are feeling today seem mutually exclusive. On the one hand, we are devastated, shaken to the core, and still trying to make sense of it all. We are simply heartbroken.

We have now learned that a second front has opened on Israel’s Northern border. Residents there have been instructed to enter bomb shelters or not leave their homes.

Hear from AMIT Israel’s crisis management team regarding the course of action and plan forming for the coming days and weeks.

The 12th grade students at AMIT Givat Shmuel Ulpanat decided to start the school year with kindness.

At the beginning of the new year, the students attending AMIT’s Sderot Religious Junior and Senior High School decided to increase the number of mitzvot and good deeds they participate in yearly.

The opening of the school year was enthusiastically celebrated at AMIT Be’er Tuvia High School with music and dancing. It was all organized by the 12th grade students who led their first day of activities, which included a reception for the 7th grade class and a visit from notable school partners, including the Reshet and the local teacher’s union.

Since the start of Corona, each week I am lucky enough to teach my dear AMIT students, and I am learning as much as I am teaching.

AMIT prepares students for their adult life through partnerships that expand learning into real-world experiences.

24/7 is an after-school program that brings together formal and informal education by curating local programs based on students’ interests.

AMIT aims to instill graduates with strong values, sense of self, commitment to giving back, and a drive to better Israeli society.

The new school year is always a special time in the AMIT family—a time of fresh beginnings, new opportunities, and renewed commitment to our students.
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These past days have unleashed a flood of emotions among all who love and hold Israel close in their hearts.

AMIT is proud to be named Israel’s #1 educational network for the seventh year in a row.

At AMIT, AI helps teachers reach students more deeply and compassionately, especially in communities too often left behind.

Looking out last week at the area where AMIT’s Memorial Park for Fallen Soldiers will soon rise, several images came to my mind. First and foremost, I thought of the poster filled with photos of the 61 AMIT school alums who are among the 891 Israeli soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our Jewish homeland after the October 7th attack.

Because the competition was to be held on a Saturday, the team was prepared to have to withdraw from the competition in order to observe Shabbat.