
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

The female students from AMIT Ashkelon Bet Junior and Senior High School recently took a special trip together that focused on women’s empowerment.
Students in grades 7 through 12 went to the Yatir Forest in the northwestern Negev, where they took part in outdoor training sessions, navigated through the city of Arad, and held cooking and baking competitions, all while sharing a unique bonding experience.

This year, Tu B’Shevat is February 10. On the “New Year of Trees” it is a tradition to eat and enjoy nuts and fruits, especially new fruits, to celebrate the end of Israel’s rainy season and the beginning of the budding trees. Famed chef and cookbook author Levana Kirschenbaum offers up a fruit-filled feast for your Tu B’Shevat.

AMIT President Audrey Axelrod Trachtman recently spoke to The Jerusalem Post in a wide-ranging interview where she shared AMIT’s impact on its more than 37,000 students, the educational landscape in Israel, and what the network is doing every day to remain in the vanguard of modern Jewish education. Please read this terrific article in The Jerusalem Post and learn more about AMIT’s storied past, impressive present, and exciting future.

The students of AMIT Karmiel Junior and Senior High School organized a special day of chesed recently to honor an alumnus of the school, Shimon Dayan, z”l, who was killed in the deadly Mount Carmel forest fire in 2010.

by Russell Jay Hendel
This article describes the innovations in use of space and building design of the AMIT religious network of schools in Israel. It is important to emphasize that space-design by itself will not accomplish pedagogic improvement; space-design is at most supportive to innovative pedagogy. Once we define our concept of learning, we can explore how spatial redesign supports and enhances it.

As part of its effort to teach students in a more experiential way, AMIT Shachar Junior and Senior High School in Beit Shemesh recently gave its students some science lessons outside their usual school milieu.”