
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

I recently met with a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. She told me that she survived the war with forged Polish papers which allowed her to flee from Poland to Austria and then Germany, where she worked at various factories and farms.

Twenty two students from the AMIT Tzfat Evelyn Schreiber Jr. & Sr. Ulpana High School represented the State of Israel and the city of Tzfat in a “march of the living” in memory of the city’s inhabitants who perished in the Holocaust and to mark the 74th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Salonika (Thessaloniki) to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The AMIT Yud Ashdod robotics team won the national innovation award at the FLL robotics competition for youth held last week at Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.

Two students from the AMIT Berman Yeshiva, Nadav Sahar (11th grade) and Noam Nativ (12th grade), participated in the regional Bible quiz held in Ashkelon.

For the second consecutive year, students from AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan Jr. and Sr. High School for Boys won first place in the Jr. High division of the national cyber championship.

I spent my last day in Israel visiting two programs in one of the most incredible places, Frisch Beit Hayeled and Midreshet AMIT.

At an awards ceremony held last week, AMIT Ulpanit (religious high school for girls) Or Akiva received the Ministry of Education’s prestigious religious education award.

How do you go from a school once known as the Red Jail now called the White House in just two years? Sometimes, it only takes one dynamic person who won’t take no for an answer.

In the teachers’ room of AMIT Atidim in Or Akiva, you will find something very unique – 15 teachers who left their previous high-ranking and lucrative professions in order to educate the next generation.

Our first stop in Rehovot was at Yeshivat AMIT Amichai an all-boys school with 425 kids in grades 7-12. There are now 300 kindergartens, up from 78 a few years ago.

As part of the science program at AMIT Wasserman Maaleh Adumim High School for girls, the students spent a day devoted to women’s empowerment at the Technion in Haifa.

With tremendous enthusiasm, energy and in high spirits nearly 300 AMIT students, teachers, principals, staff, and supporters joined together at Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon in support of AMIT’s Frisch Beit Hayeled, a foster home which serves 120 children ages 4-14 who need a warm and loving safe refuge.

Ofra Pe’er, the principal at AMIT Renanim Junior and Senior Science and Technology High School for Girls, believes that the next Prime Minister of Israel will come from her school.

In January of last year, Daniella Moffson, a 21-year-old Manhattan native and Barnard College student who spent her high-school gap-year in 2013 volunteering at a Jerusalem shelter for severely neglected children, died as she lived: giving.

Last week, the 10th grade students from AMIT Yeshivat Netivot Dror in Or Akiva went on an educational hike, following the footsteps of King Saul on Mt. Gilboa.

While visiting AMIT Kfar Blatt Youth Village and AMIT Petach Tikvah Pre-Army Junior College, I met Moshe Uziel, who as a child lived in the youth village with his sister because their mother could not care for them properly.

At AMIT Gwen Straus Society and Law track in Kfar Batya, Ra’anana, Mishloach Manot will be sent to every graduate serving in the army.

The administration of the AMIT Gould Rehovot girl’s school was informed that 100% of the school’s students have full entitlement to a matriculation certificate for the school year of 5776.

Last week, three students from AMIT Bar Ilan Netanya won an innovative technology award granted by the Ness Technology leadership program for high school students.

Today I met Yonatan and Amir at two different AMIT programs. While each young man has his own unique story, both shared similar challenges in school.

I can hardly contain my excitement. After working at AMIT as Director of Marketing & Communication, I am going to Israel to see first-hand of the amazing schools.

Last week, an elderly Holocaust survivor was found dead in her apartment in Yerucham. Maria Schechtman was the sole survivor from her family and lived on her own for many years in Yerucham.

I started the day at the Elaine Silver Vocational High School in Beersheva. There is something so magical about this place

Congratulations to David Lev Ran, a Yeshivat AMIT Amichai 8th grade student, who won the Rotary Club sponsored young orators competition in Rehovot.

Around the year 2000, AMIT found itself at a crossroads. The leadership of the school network, known to be synonymous with religious Zionist education, was faced with a bold question: Should AMIT expand to include secular schools?

Students at AMIT Wasserman High School for girls in Ma’ale Adumim, prepared for life after graduation in a unique and meaningful way – by inviting their grandmothers into the school kitchen.

A meaningful evening of hafrashat challah at a Haifa hotel recently took an unexpected turn.

When sirens sound, most people move toward shelter. Elroi Dadon does the opposite.

Seven students from AMIT Ron Arad in Rehovot are heading to the international finals of the Ramon Space Olympiad this May, after earning second place in the national competition.

Students at Yeshivat AMIT Eitan in Ma’aleh Adumim presented their Al-powered educational application to the National Education Prize Committee.

Eighth-grade Educator and Head of the Yeshiva Path and Middle School Principal, AMIT Eitan Ma’ale Adumim

Bible Teacher at AMIT Fred Kahane Technological School in Ashkelon

Teacher at The Gloria & Henry I. Zeisel and Family Jr. College at Kfar Blatt in Petach Tikva