Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shumel students are devoting part of their summer vacation to learning something new, including self-defense and first aid.

This summer students from AMIT Kfar Blatt Petah Tikva Youth Village took time out of their summer vacation to pay their respects to Bessie Gotsfeld, z”l, the founder of AMIT.

Two AMIT students won the prestigious Ilan Ramon Award for Excellence and Leadership this summer. Sharona Passin of AMIT Wasserman High School in Beer Sheva and Shachar Kriaf of AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan in Ramat Gan were among twelve teens from across the country who received this honor.

At Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon in Mateh Yehuda chesed and learning do not end when the school year does. Accompanied by their teacher, Nachshon students spent a day volunteering in Jerusalem where they helped pack food parcels at an organization that provides for needy and sick individuals.

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.