
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

By Dr. Amnon Eldar
During the counting of the Omer, a period in which we work on ourselves and strive to improve our interpersonal skills and care for others, we would like to focus on hakarat ha’tov, being thankful for all that we have been blessed. The mourning of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students, who treated each other with disrespect, reminds us of the words of their teacher, “Love your neighbor as yourself. This is an important principle in the Torah.” Loving and caring for others teaches us that gratitude is a basic trait of utmost importance that should be carried out for all of our lives.

AMIT’s focus on excellence and teamwork recently resulted in students from one of the networks’ boys’ schools in Modi’in taking first place at a national physical fitness competition organized by the Education Ministry and the Israeli School Sports Association.

As the nation locked down even more vigorously during the Passover holiday, AMIT teachers and students did many acts of chesed to help vulnerable people celebrate the holiday.

We may not be able to hop a plane and travel right now, but we can take an “armchair” trip with AMIT alum Ilan Rogers, who traveled to 52 countries in 52 weeks. Rogers took more than 100,000 photographs documenting his adventure. Check out the gallery of locales he visited.

Entering the doors of the modest building of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, one immediately feels as if he entered into a parallel little world with its own sense of time, language, energy, and its own set of rules.
Everything about this residential home for Israel’s at-risk youth is designed to offer a familial therapeutic setting, in order to encourage children who have suffered greatly a chance to heal.

AMIT student ambassador Roni Ashkenazi, currently doing her national service Carmel 6000 (but at home), reflects on what it’s like to be living through the health crisis in Israel.