AMIT
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| Founded | May 10, 1925 |
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| Founder | Bessie Gotsfeld[1] |
| Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| 13-5631502[2] | |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York[2] |
| Audrey Axelrod Trachtman,[3] | |
| Suzanne Doft[1] | |
| Hattie Dubroff[1] | |
| Affiliations | AMIT Israel[2] |
| Revenue | $9,731,950[2] (2013) |
| Expenses | $9,027,254[2] (2013) |
| Endowment | $200,000[2] |
| Employees | 37[2] (2013) |
| Volunteers | 47[2] (2013) |
| Website | amitchildren |
Formerly called | Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, American Mizrachi Women, Amit Women[4] |
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AMIT is an American Jewish volunteer organization providing Jewish values–based education to 40,000 children in Israel. AMIT operates 87 schools across 29 cities.
The AMIT Network was selected by Israel's Ministry of Education as the leading Jewish educational network across all measurements, including quality bagrut, pedagogical innovation, pluralism and bridging the gap, lowest dropout rate and integrity.
AMIT has raised bagrut scores across the reshet (“network”), and it has significantly increased the number of students studying math, physics, science and technology subjects at the highest levels. AMIT graduates maintain a high level of military service or national service (95%), and they enter the army and the workforce equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
AMIT maintains a balance of 70% of its schools in Israel's periphery (disadvantaged areas) and 30% in the more affluent center of Israel. When new schools are admitted to the network, this balance is maintained. On June 14, 2020, they have organized a Virtual Tour of Israel where they have presented the first National Mother-in-Israel.[5]
History
AMIT was founded on May 10, 1925, by Bessie Gotsfeld, and was then known as the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America.[6] It officially incorporated on October 2, 1930.[4] As early as 1934, AMIT was resettling young people from Europe in Mandatory Palestine. By the years immediately following the end of the war in Europe, AMIT participated in the resettlement of thousands of children, many of them orphans, who survived the Holocaust.
The Holocaust survivors were followed by the large influx of Jews from North Africa and the Arab countries in 1948–49, when AMIT dealt with the pressing needs of tens of thousands of newly arrived immigrant children.
In 1981, AMIT was designated by the Israeli government as its official Reshet (network) for religious secondary technological education.
AMIT today
AMIT operates 108 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. AMIT students boast an 85% (bagrut) matriculation rate, exceeding the national average of 70% among Israeli Jewish students.[citation needed] More than 95% of its graduates enlist in the Israel Defense Forces or perform national service.[citation needed]
List of AMIT schools
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Archival materials
The American Jewish Historical Society received a large donation of archival material and photographs related to AMIT and the organization's projects in Israel. The collection was minimally processed over the Summer 2011 and is available for research.
Photographs and materials relating to the Baltimore chapters' history are archived at the Jewish Museum of Maryland and can be viewed through their online collections.
See also
- Education in Israel
- Ministry of Education (Israel)
- Religious Zionism § Educational institutions
- Other school networks recognized by the Ministry of Education:
References
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- ^ a b c d "Our Boards Script error: No such module "webarchive".". AMIT. Accessed on January 15, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". AMIT Children Inc. Guidestar. December 31, 2013.
- ^ "Our President Script error: No such module "webarchive".". AMIT. Accessed on January 15, 2016.
- ^ a b "AMIT Children, Inc." Division of Corporations. New York State Department of State. Accessed on January 16, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Join AMIT Children For A Virtual Tour of Israel". FREE UK Press Release Distribution. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
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- ^ midreshetamit.org
External links
- Official Website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120415134524/http://amitchildren.org/who-we-are/amit-history/
- AMIT records; I-521; American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.
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