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AMIT HIGH SCHOOL RATED AMONG TOP TEN IN ISRAEL
New York City, May 23, 2005...... For the second year in a row, a study conducted by the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv and the Ministry of Education has ranked an AMIT high school among the top ten high schools in Israel. The AMIT Ulpana High School for Girls in Beersheva was ranked number four in what has become an annual survey of high school education in Israel. Some 1500 high schools were evaluated.
In 2004, the AMIT Harry and Bina Appleman Comprehensive High School in Beersheva was ranked number five and the AMIT Gould High School in Rehovot number nine.
The AMIT Ulpana in Beersheva enrolls 560 students in grades seven through twelve. The school day runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and encompasses a full curriculum with an emphasis on Judaic studies. Twinned with a yeshiva high school in Montreal, Canada, the Ulpana students work on tzedaka projects in both cities, and also participate in a dialogue program for tolerance and understanding with students at the secular high school next to the Ulpana campus.
The AMIT Ulpana in Beersheva is no stranger to honors and accolades. The school won the Teachers Union Education Prize for 2001 for outstanding achievement in promoting tolerance and understanding between religious and secular students. In 2003, Moran Gomri, an eleventh grade student, won the 40th International Bible Quiz, competing against 60 teens from 27 nations.
Among the criteria used in selecting Israel's top ten high schools were a zero (or less than one percent) drop out rate; a continuous rate of academic improvement; and a rate of more than 75 percent of the students successfully completing the matriculation exams.
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.
AMIT educates and cares for Israel's youth, including the most vulnerable. More than three quarters of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. 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 more than 60 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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Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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