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.
The daylong trip capped off a month in which the girls learned about groundbreaking Israeli women, including Tamar Ariel, Israel’s first religious female air force pilot who died tragically in a Himalayan blizzard in 2014; Miriam Peretz, the Israel Prize laureate who lost two sons during their army service (Yeshivat AMIT Eliraz in Petach Tikvah is named for one of her sons); award-winning biologist and professor Marcelle Machluf; former Prime Minister Golda Meir; and other notable figures.
The principal of the girls track at the school said the students learned in an experiential and meaningful about women’s empowerment.
By focusing on women’s empowerment and learning about these notable female figures as role models, the girls learned invaluable lessons. This curriculum underscores an important theme for AMIT schools – that is empowering girls, especially those in the geographic and socioeconomic periphery who may not otherwise have the opportunities that other girls with greater advantages may have.
“We were excited to prove that each of our students is breaking ground in her own way,” said Michal Peleg, the principal. “With a moving experience that united us, we were able to see the special light within each girl that came through as the older students helped the younger ones with kindness and gratitude.”
