
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 opening of the school year was enthusiastically celebrated at AMIT Be’er Tuvia High School with music and dancing. It was all organized by the 12th grade students who led their first day of activities, which included a reception for the 7th grade class and a visit from notable school partners, including the Reshet and the local teacher’s union.

Since the start of Corona, each week I am lucky enough to teach my dear AMIT students, and I am learning as much as I am teaching.

AMIT prepares students for their adult life through partnerships that expand learning into real-world experiences.

24/7 is an after-school program that brings together formal and informal education by curating local programs based on students’ interests.

AMIT aims to instill graduates with strong values, sense of self, commitment to giving back, and a drive to better Israeli society.

Gogya is AMIT’s renowned education platform, a holistic educational approach that includes academic excellence, values, socialization, emotional development, and exposure to the real world.

11th-grade students at AMIT Hillel High School in Rehovot volunteered and gave out with real joy. The students prepared and produced a Purim happening for the children of the Sharet neighborhood in the city of Lod, which included play stations, art workshops and food stalls.

Reading the Purim celebrations at the Amit Beer Tuvia school, the school administration in collaboration with the teachers’ committee decided to salute the entire staff of the high school and organized a happy and enriching Purim party, especially for them, when the whole party was based on the staff’s talents.

The excited children were very happy, the parents were excited and also the nursing staff joined in with applause and great joy. It was a special and exciting experience, especially after a long period of Corona, where outsiders who were not close relatives could not be admitted to the wards.

After a two-year period of living in the shadow of the Corona, at the Amit Kennedy Acre School in Acre, they chose to celebrate the Purim events as a sign of connection and love for the people. On Rosh Chodesh Adar, the students set out on the boys’ path, led by social education coordinator Ira Lahiani.

Please join us in thanking the Friedman family, including AMIT’s very own Limor Friedman, for dedicating a Sefer Torah to the AMIT religious high school in Sderot.

The newly refurbished Gogya building of AMIT Kiryat Malachi Junior and Senior High School was inaugurated with the participation of representatives from the Ministry of Education, the Kiryat Malachi Municipality, and the AMIT network.

Students in grades 10 and 11 at AMIT Bellows Ulpanat Noga High School, Beit Shemesh, embarked on “Dream in the South,” an impressive four-day journey that began in the Ramon Crater.

One of the outstanding runners in last week’s Jerusalem Marathon was Rabbi Uriel Fish, a homeroom teacher at the AMIT Eitan Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Maaleh Adumim.

A celebration at the AMIT Eitan Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Ma’aleh Adumim, this week, to open the first class of the new AMIT Benaia Pre-Military Preparatory Mechina and Junior College. The mayor of Ma’aleh Adumim, Benny Kashriel, parents, and the students, all participated in the event.

When the seventh-grade students at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon learned that Nathaniel Werker, father of their classmate Itai, has been suffering from post-battle PTSD for 25 years and is still fighting for his rehabilitation, they decided to support him.

According to data that was recently published by the Ministry of Education, the 2020 graduating class of AMIT Ulpanit for Girls in Or Akiva hit a 100% bagrut success rate. This is a significant achievement for a high school that doesn’t have entrance exams and accepts a wide variety of students. Having accomplished this feat for the third year in a row is even more impressive, considering the 2020 school year was particularly challenging due in no small part to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yan Movshowitz, a student at the AMIT Wasserman Junior and Senior High School, Beer Sheva, is the first place winner in the Ministry of Education’s Physics Olympics competition for 10th graders, Religious Division.

At the AMIT Elaine Silver Vocational School in Beer Sheva, the school year opened with a special chessed project for Rosh Hashana. Students at the school’s junior college spent many hours preparing 500 boxes of basic food products to help needy families with holiday preparations

With the beginning of the school year being so close to the High Holidays, Shirley Agiv of AMIT Sutker Renanim needed a creative way to guide her students. The goal was to encourage them to think about always helping those around them – including those in their very own classroom.

What are the chances that a student and teacher at the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, Ohio, would meet again, years later, as student and teacher?

Ulpanat AMIT Alei Zahav is the winner of the 2020/2021 AMIT Network Education Prize this year.
The nominating committee explained that the school was chosen because it fully implements AMIT’s values of Torat Chaim, academic excellence, and commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Furthermore, it is undergoing an in-depth cultural change that touches upon academics, social, emotional and values-based issues.

In preparation for the Jewish High Holidays, 10th and 12th grade students attending AMIT Wasserman Junior and Senior High School, Beer Sheva, volunteered to organize food packages for 500 families spanning the city.

As the Sukkot holiday draws near, AMIT Network’s “AMIT Builds Sukkot” project is once again underway. Using social media, AMIT students invite those in their communities in need of assistance putting up a sukkah to contact them. Teams of student volunteers are then dispatched to build sukkot for those that have requested help. Their goal is to ensure that throughout the city everyone experiences a joyous Sukkot holiday.

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