AMIT
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| Founded | May 10, 1925 |
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| Founder | Bessie Gotsfeld |
| Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
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| Headquarters | New York City, New York |
| Debbie Moed | |
| Suzanne Doft | |
| Hattie Dubroff | |
| Affiliations | AMIT Israel |
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Revenue (2013)
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$9,731,950 |
| Expenses (2013) | $9,027,254 |
| Endowment | $200,000 |
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Employees (2013)
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37 |
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Volunteers (2013)
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47 |
| Slogan | "Building Israel One Child at a Time" |
| Mission | To provide underprivileged children in Israel with family-centered childcare and to operate a network of quality schools in Israel within a religious Zionist framework. |
| Website | amitchildren |
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Formerly called
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Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, American Mizrachi Women, Amit Women |
AMIT (Hebrew acronym for Organization for Volunteers for Judaism and Torah, English acronym for Americans for Israel and Torah, and a homonym in Hebrew for friend) is an American Jewish religious Zionist volunteer organization, dedicated to education in Israel. AMIT operates more than 110 schools and programs providing a religious Jewish education while incorporating academic and technological studies.
AMIT maintains a balance of 70% of its schools in the periphery and 30% in the more affluent center of Israel. When new schools are admitted to the network, this balance is maintained.
AMIT's current focus is on raising bagrut scores across the reshet ("network"), maintaining high levels of military service among graduates, and training the next generation of its teachers. There is also an ongoing campaign to renovate the physical buildings at Kfar Blatt and Beit Hayeled which were last updated in the early eighties.
AMIT was founded on May 10, 1925 by Bessie Gotsfeld, and was then known as the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America. It officially incorporated on October 2, 1930. As early as 1934, AMIT was at the forefront of Youth children from Europe and their resettlement in Palestine. In the years ahead, and 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 survivors of the Holocaust were followed by the large influx of Jews from North Africa and the Arab countries in 1948-49. Again, AMIT's resources were tested as its facilities were flooded by the pressing needs of tens of thousands of newly arrived immigrant children. In 1955, the first contingent of Ethiopian Jews arrived and in the 1970s, the great Russian immigration began. With each new development in Israel's history AMIT responded, opening new schools and facilities to meet the demands of a growing population of children in need.
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