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.
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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.
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AMIT Bar Ilan Gush Dan The Story Hidden in the Data
Three students from AMIT Bar Ilan Gush Dan High School recently found themselves facing a challenge.
March 2, 2026
Kfar Batya Campus
Sneak Peek: AMIT’s Kfar Batya Campus
Get a sneak peek at the ongoing progress at the Gabel & Straus Family Campus at AMIT Kfar Batya.
March 26, 2025
Spotlight Sessions
Spotlight Session #2: AMIT Builds Community
AMIT Israel Spotlight Session #2: AMIT’s Community of Co-Ed and Secular Schools – Bridging Divides, Building Community
December 9, 2024
Officers’ School: In Both Education and the Military, People make the Difference
September 13, 2021
A major part of an AMIT education is the values that our schools instill, and serving one’s country is one of our core values. It
Sixteen AMIT schools are on the Ministry of Education
September 2, 2021
The Ministry of Education’s list of outstanding schools was published August 19, 2021, and sixteen AMIT schools “made the grade.” The ratings are based on the schools’ academic and values-based achievements. Academic accomplishments examined include bagrut eligibility rates, percentage of excellence on bagrut exams, percentage of eligibility for high level bagrut certificates, and degree of improvement compared to achievements in the previous year. The social values on which schools were rated include enlistment rates in the IDF or national service, dropout prevention, and inclusion of special education students.
Summer Student Spotlight: AMIT Fred Kahane Technological High School in Ashkelon
August 31, 2021
AMIT’s Technological High Schools are “the last stop” for many students. The kids attending have not managed to create a path to success for themselves anywhere else, and they arrive after bouncing around from school to school. Along those lines, you might think they would be the last students who would assume leadership positions, taking on more responsibility than necessary. At AMIT Fred Kahane Technological High School in Ashkelon, you can see this is precisely what starts happening.
Summer Student Spotlight: AMIT Florin Taman Tzfat
August 30, 2021
Neoray Kaholy, a rising 9th grader at AMIT Florin Taman High School for Boys in Tzfat, has been a counselor with Krembo Wings for the past two years. When asked who inspired him at AMIT, he replied: “Rav Eldad, who is my homeroom teacher, really inspires me. I grew up with the idea that serving God was all about learning, learning, learning. Rav Eldad, with all his energy, taught me that you can also serve God through doing, and always being happy. To be happy from nothing and everything.”
Teacher Summer Spotlight: AMIT Belevav Shalem Yeshiva
August 26, 2021
How does a schoolteacher convey a values-based education? Subjects such as math are governed by indisputable numbers, equations, and figures, whereas a lesson in values requires a different approach. We have been focusing on students and how they implement AMIT’s idea of chessed and community during their summer vacations, by volunteering in many different capacities. But where are they learning their values? One answer is by watching their teachers act as role models, in and out of the classroom.
Summer Student Spotlight: Alexander – Blind Volunteer
August 23, 2021
“We’re on the way to the hospital to deliver games and breakfast, and to bring some joy.”
For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live.
Summer Student Spotlight: AMIT Wasserman Torah, Arts and Sciences High School for Girls, Ma’aleh Adumim
August 19, 2021
“I loved it so I continued.”
For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live. The continuance of this lesson is paramount, however, mostly because those in need are the first to ‘go without.’ Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight how our students have adapted and are spending their summer break.
Summer Student Spotlight: AMIT Kfar Ganim
August 15, 2021
For nearly all of us and in one way or another, Covid devoured the last year of our lives. Incorporating chessed, or care and concern for community is a principle of education at AMIT schools that had to be adjusted to fit the environment in which we all now live. The continuance of this lesson is paramount, however, mostly because those in need are the first to ‘go without.’ Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight how our students have adapted and are spending their summer break.
An Interview With Evatar Shaki, Director Of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled In Gilo
August 11, 2021
“When everyone was in quarantine, we had a huge house with fields, swings, and a trampoline”
Read an Interview With Evatar Shaki, Director Of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled In Gilo.
AMIT Bet Ashkelon – From 50% Bagrut Rate To 85% In Three Years
August 9, 2021
According to the Ministry of Education, the percentage of Bagrut eligibility at AMIT Bet Ashkelon Jr. and Sr. High School continues to climb and has now reached 85%! This is a huge increase from three years ago when the rate was only 50%. In addition, 35 students received certificates of social involvement excellence.
Creative Torah Competition In The Shadow Of Covid
August 8, 2021
Nine students from all over the country won the national Creative Torah competition run by the National Religious Education system, in which students are required to write research articles combining some aspect of Jewish law with a modern issue. Three of those nine students came from AMIT schools.
Students From Two AMIT Schools Build Working Satellites
August 5, 2021
After three years of hard work, a project in software engineering in both AMIT B’levav Shalem Yeshiva High School, Yerucham, and Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel, has successfully produced two nanosatellites. Project TEVEL allows students to build working satellites that are then launched into space. An exciting graduation ceremony was held this week in Netanya in the presence of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen, and the director of the Israeli Space Agency, Avi Blasberger.
AMIT Nordlicht Religious Technological High School Student Wins First Place In Tae Kwon Do Competition
August 4, 2021
In the Youth Tae Kwon Do competition held in Yavne this past Friday, July 9th, Yosef Chaim Rabuh, a student at AMIT Nordlicht Religious Technological High School, Jerusalem, won first place in his weight class.
Future Olympian? AMIT Student Wins Silver Medal At The Youth National Swimming Championships
August 2, 2021
Itai Handler, a ninth-grade student at AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Ramat Gan, came in second place in the country this week, in the 400-meter freestyle race at the Youth National Swimming Championships at the Wingate Institute.
Rare Achievement – Two AMIT Students Win Medals At The International Physics Olympiad
July 28, 2021
Two AMIT students, who were part of the five-member Israel national team at the 51st International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held this week in Lithuania, won medals and brought a great deal of honor to the State of Israel.
Tamir Shapiro, from AMIT Mr. & Mrs. Lester Sutker Arts and Sciences Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Modiin, won a silver medal in the competition, and Reut Goldberg from AMIT Anna Teich Ulpana, Haifa, won a bronze medal.
AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan Students Are Among The Winners Of The Bebras National Algorithm Competition
July 27, 2021
Eli Samuelson and Alon Freundlich, eighth-grade students at AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Ramat Gan, were winners of the Bebras Israel competition held last week. These AMIT students excelled in a competition in which there were hundreds of participants from all over the country.
Menorat HaMaor Increases Bagrut Eligibility by 30% — Despite Covid-19!
July 22, 2021
This year, 93% of the graduates of the AMIT Menorat HaMaor Petah Tikva ultra-Orthodox high school will be graduating with matriculation certificates. This is a meteoric increase compared to the previous year in which 62.5% of the students earned a matriculation certificate. When compared with the national average of 69.7% the achievement is equally notable.
Another AMIT Ginsburg Bar llan Gush Dan Student Gets his Pilot’s Wings
July 15, 2021
Of all the units in the IDF, the Air Force is considered the elite of the elite. Very few soldiers make it through the grueling training course. (For security reasons, those soldiers are not allowed to be named nor their pictures published.) Last week, a graduate of AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan Junior and Senior High School for Boys, Ramat Gan, stood on the parade ground at the Hatzerim Air Force base at the end of the helicopter course and received his wings.
Two AMIT Schools Win Awards At Global Robotics Competition
July 12, 2021
The Robotics Program FLL (FIRST LEGO League), established in collaboration with LEGO, exposes children from kindergarten up to ninth grade, to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through practical, fun, and exciting learning opportunities. Participants gain experience in real-world problem solving through a global robotics program that helps today’s students and teachers build a better future together.
Director General Of The Ministry Of Education: “Yeshivat Amit Kfar Ganim Is A Place Of Educational Inspiration.”
July 7, 2021
During a visit to Yeshivat AMIT Kfar Ganim High School in Petach Tikva by the Ministry of Education’s management, Ministry Director-General Amit Edri said that it was a place full of educational inspiration and that the visit gave the entire administration food for thought. “This is a place of inspiration and idealism; a place that combines many values, knowledge, and skills. I wish there were more educational institutions like this.”
16 Braids For Cancer Patients
June 30, 2021
Students at Sutker AMIT Renanim Science and Technology High School for Girls in Ra’anana held a hair donation event this week for cancer patients. It took a long time for the students to grow their hair long enough for this important cause.
First Place In The “Leadership Scores” Competition: AMIT Wasserman Jr. And Sr. High School, Beer Sheva
June 27, 2021
“Leadership Scores” is a social project designed to instill values and develop leadership abilities among youth through basketball tournaments and classroom leadership educational activities.
On the final day of the program run by the “Sports Educational Initiative” organization, which took place this week, students from AMIT Wasserman Jr. and Sr. High School in Beer Sheva won first place in the Southern District.
AMIT congratulates the new AZM president, Deborah Lewis Isaac
June 23, 2021
On behalf of AMIT, our Board, and all our supporters, we congratulate AMIT past president Debbie Isaac on her appointment as President of the American Zionist Movement (AZM). Debbie is the first woman to lead this organization in over 40 years.
AMIT Hatzor Haglilit Increases Bagrut Eligibility From 74% To 95.4% In Just Four Years
June 23, 2021
A few years ago, Hatzor Haglilit’s regional council in the north announced a system-wide revolution which included educational plans, staffing changes, upgrades to infrastructure, increasing budgets, and a general emphasis in all of the municipality’s resources to provide whatever is needed so that students in Hatzor Haglilit would be on par with those in schools in the center of the country.
Expanding the Tent: A Turning Point for AMIT
July 29, 2026
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?
A Recipe for Life at Ulpanat AMIT Wasserman
May 5, 2026
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.
Ulpanat AMIT Haifa Students Share Joy
April 29, 2026
A meaningful evening of hafrashat challah at a Haifa hotel recently took an unexpected turn.
AMIT Nordlicht Student Runs Toward Responsibility
April 22, 2026
When sirens sound, most people move toward shelter. Elroi Dadon does the opposite.
From AMIT Rehovot to the World Stage
April 15, 2026
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.
Building the Future, One Line of Code at a Time
April 9, 2026
Students at Yeshivat AMIT Eitan in Ma’aleh Adumim presented their Al-powered educational application to the National Education Prize Committee.
Teacher Spotlight
Shlomi Dahan
Eighth-grade Educator and Head of the Yeshiva Path and Middle School Principal, AMIT Eitan Ma’ale Adumim
Rabbi Mordechai Greenblatt
Bible Teacher at AMIT Fred Kahane Technological School in Ashkelon
Avener Maselton
Teacher at The Gloria & Henry I. Zeisel and Family Jr. College at Kfar Blatt in Petach Tikva