Nachum presented this morning’s JM in the AM live from the city of Sderot with our friends from AMIT. His guests included Andrew Goldsmith – Executive Vice President – AMIT Children, Limor Friedman, AMIT’s Director of Partnerships, Amnon Eldar and Gil Chadash, Director of Education in Sderot Municipality – AMIT – Sderot Strategic Partnership, Ofer Hahn, Deputy Director of Innovation and Marketing, Yotam Ruff, Director of AMIT-Sderot Directorate (AMIT’s unique model), Chaim Shmilla, Director of Therapies.

From the AMIT website:

AMIT provides an innovative, Jewish values-based education to more than 40,000 children in Israel each year. AMIT welcomes every child and levels the playing field for the children of Israel through education.

Motivated by the vision of Bessie Gotsfeld, AMIT was founded in 1925 and opened the first vocational high school for girls in Jerusalem in 1933. Today AMIT is recognized by Israel’s Education Ministry as the country’s leading educational network across all measurements including quality bagrut, pedagogical innovation, pluralism and bridging the gap, lowest dropout rate and integrity.