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AMIT School Year Opens with Record Enrollment
AMIT welcomed a record number of almost 25,000 students this fall in 98 schools and programs throughout Israel. The first AMIT schools were opened in the communities of Modi'in and Or Akiva, a new elementary school joined our AMIT Kennedy Junior and Senior High School in Acco, and the new Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel made history (see story below).
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AMIT Opens First Fully Computerized Ulpana in Israel
The new Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel opened its doors on September 1 to its first 73 students. It is the first fully computerized junior and senior high school for girls in Israel offering both high level Jewish studies coupled with advanced courses in science and computer technology. The school has opened with three classes of seventh grade girls and will grow, year by year, until it can accommodate students from seventh to twelfth grade.
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AMIT Beersheva High School Teachers Hold Workshop in Russia
This past summer two teachers at the AMIT Junior and Senior High School in Beersheva - Zev Frieman and Dr. Yevgeny Kanell - made history when they traveled to the Penza region in Russia to hold a computer science teaching workshop for 54 local teachers. According to Mr. Frieman, who was born in Penza, this partnership between Israel and Russia was a first-time happening.
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It is Easy Being Green!
Kermit the Frog, in his famous lament, said "It's not easy being green"; but at the AMIT Torani Mada'i Elementary School in Sderot, the students and teachers are singing a different tune.
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Meet the Young Inventors of AMIT Gwen Straus
Nir Reiter, a ninth grader at the AMIT Gwen Straus Junior and Senior Science High School for Boys in Ra'anana, already had an interesting idea when assigned an end-of-the-year science project. The assignment was to solve an Halachic issue using technology. Nir's idea? To find a digital way to deal with electrical power problems on Shabbat.
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AMIT
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| New York, NY 10003 | info@amitchildren.org | 1.800.989.AMIT
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Our mission: AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.
Some 70 percent of AMIT students live in development towns or other "peripheral" areas of the country. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates 98 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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