
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

Bareket Darahi, a tenth grader at Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel, won two silver medals at the national championships in athletics held in late June.

Last week, just before the end of the school year, the AMIT Yud Ashdod team won the Ashdod city-wide championship in mini-soccer.

A select group of AMIT Network eleventh graders from across the country – from Yerucham in the South to Or Akiva in the North – toured the Army Radio studios in Jaffa this week.

The Ambassador of the United States of America to the State of Israel Daniel B. Shapiro visited the Gogya center at AMIT Kfar Batya, Raanana, yesterday.

Congratulations to our students in Sderot! The team from AMIT Sderot Yeshiva track won first place at the YTEK National Mathematics, Aerospace and Robotics Olympiad that took place in mid May at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

On Tuesday, the morning of Memorial Day Eve in Israel, AMIT Hatzor HaGlilit students walked the entire day and covered 22 kilometers on the Israel Trail, walking from the Arbel Cliffs to the home of Oron Shaul’s family.

Over the past few weeks students at AMIT Hammer High School for Boys in Rehovot raised over 10,000 shekels in order to buy Passover food staples for needy families.

Hallel Barelli, a 17 year old resident of Sderot and student at Ulpanat AMIT Shirat Sderot, was chosen to light a torch on Israeli Independence Day.

One hundred Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon, Mateh Yehuda, students , parents and teachers ran the 10 km marathon in Jerusalem held at the end of March.

The AMIT Tzfat debate club, with members from AMIT Tzfat High School for Girls and the AMIT Evelyn Schreiber Ulpana, recently qualified for the national debate competition.

Congratulations to our girls in the South! The robotics team at AMIT Kamah Yeruham High School for Girls won the FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) National Robotics Competition this week and was chosen to represent Israel at the world championship.

Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon Mateh Yehuda student, Natti Ibrokski, was named the Outstanding Delegate at the Model United Nations national competition held this week with representatives from all sectors of Israeli society and from abroad.

A delegation of new immigrant students from AMIT Bar Ilan High School for Boys, Netanya, met recently with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem.

Doreen Cohen, an 11th grader at Ulpanat AMIT Anna Teich Haifa, will represent the Future Female Engineers project at an Israeli Embassy conference to be held next month at the United Nations.

Rabbi Rafi Maimon, principal of AMIT Hammer Rehovot High School for Boys, was recently recognized by the City of Rehovot as the outstanding principal of the year.

The AMIT Kamah Yerucham robotics team won first place at the FIRST Tech Challenge preliminary national competition.

Since the beginning of the school year, students have been developing a website called GREAT (Give, Receive, Eat) aimed at linking businesses that sell food, including function halls, restaurants, and hotels, with food rescue organizations in order to channel surplus food to the needy instead of throwing it away.

Two principals representing the AMIT Network traveled to Paris recently to visit Jewish schools and participate in an Aliyah Fair sponsored by the Jewish Agency.

Shelly Omer, a student at AMIT Wasserman Ma’ale Adumim High School for Girls, was one of 11 students recognized nationally for leadership and community involvement.

The dodgeball teams at AMIT Bellows Ulpanat Noga, Beit Shemesh, won two championships last week, their city’s top prize and a national cup.

Congratulations to Michal Walter, a physics teacher at AMIT Atidim High School in Or Akiva, who was who has received the Trump Foundation’s Master Teacher Award and a prize of 10,000 shekels.

Yair Chetbon, principal of Yeshivat AMIT Eliraz High School in Petach Tikvah, recently received the “Outstanding Soldier” award, a top honor by the IDF, for his service as a major in the reserves in the elite Duvdevan counter-terrorism commando brigade.

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 Rosalie Sohn shares her Reflections on Learning.

Four students from AMIT Kamah in Yerucham won first place in the Israel Sustainable Development Goals Program (ISDG) competition, a unique program that gives students the opportunity to create solutions for Third World countries.

Two AMIT students were among the top winners of a competitive nationwide essay contest to “Name their Hero.”
Talia Kadosh, an 11th grader at Ulpanat AMIT Or Akiva, and Akivah Amitai, a 12th grader at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon in Mateh Yehuda, are the winners of Israel’s prestigious essay contest (along with Chaim Chaimovich, a 9th grader at the Kfar Yarok Agricultural school).

Caring for some of Israel’s most vulnerable children is challenging. Caring for some of Israel’s most vulnerable children during the coronavirus pandemic while facing lockdown and feelings of uncertainty and fear is an exponential challenge.

Israel was in the midst of a coronavirus shutdown, but AMIT Kfar Blatt Youth Village was always open, offering a protective home for students who needed a safe place for the Pesach vacation during the difficult days of the pandemic.