Help bolster Israel's most historically important network of schools and colleges.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFfilming 224(photo credit: Courtesy)
The Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools is an exciting new organization that seeks to bolster the financial underpinnings of Israel's most historically important network of schools and colleges. This new North American fundraising arm supports the leading science and technology educational system in Israel, nurturing highly skilled graduates who are instrumental in maintaining Israel's qualitative technological edge.
This leading network plays a unique, hands-on role in educating thousands of students who go on to become some of Israel's most productive and specialized citizens. With over 100,000 students in 165 schools across Israel, these schools are creating a workforce of engineers, senior military personnel, high-tech entrepreneurs and scientists who constitute the backbone and future of Israel, and make up the fabric of its booming economic engine.
With comprehensive high schools, industrial schools, educational centers and technical, engineering, and academic colleges throughout Israel, this network constitutes the state's largest non-governmental school system. It operates in over 60 communities that span the length and breadth of the country, including remote localities such as Hatzor, Yokneam, Beit Shean, Yeruham, Arad, Ma'a lot and Migdal Haemek.
One out of every 10 Israeli high school students studies within the system and benefits from a strong education in the sciences and technology. 67 percent of its students are on a technology track, compared to 37 percent of other Israeli students. Network students also benefit from a curriculum emphasizing Jewish values, social awareness and national solidarity, lessons essential to the survival of Israel and its people. These schools routinely outperform the national averages for graduates serving in the Israeli Defense Forces.
Recognizing the importance of an education system to shape the next generation, this network places particular emphasis on community outreach programs aimed at helping disadvantaged populations in Israel, including those who suffer from socioeconomic difficulties, the learning disabled, immigrant populations and residents of peripheral regions in general. These outreach programs actualize the network's chief commitment to bridging the gaps between the sizable and different populations that make up the state of Israel while instilling a sense of humanitarian values into its students.
Founded in Russia in 1880, the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training took root in Israel in 1949, where a network of schools was established based on the same ideals and in the belief that education is the foundation of a strong Jewish nation. Almost 60 years later, this singular network continues to cultivate the academic talents of all Israeli students, from the most gifted to the most disadvantaged, from every part of Israel and from every economic level.
With the Friends of Israel Sci-Tech schools, you can help build the future of Israel.
Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools
245 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
212-840-1166
www.israel-scitech-schools.orgThis is a sponsored article. The article should not be considered as advice.
