By Cheryl Shaanan and Robert E. Sutton
AMIT HIGHLIGHTS AND SUCCESSES Because of your generous donations, more than 32,000 students are being educated and nurtured within a framework of academic excellence, traditional Jewish values and Zionist ideals. Here are a few ways your gifts made a difference.
Hallel Barelli with Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi
AMIT SDEROT STUDENT HONORED ON INDEPENDENCE DAY Hallel Barelli, a 17-year old resident of Sderot and student at Ulpanat AMIT Shirat Sderot, was chosen to light the torch on Israeli Independence Day. Hallel was selected for this prestigious honor for her leadership and social activism. She is a youth movement leader, a member of the municipal youth council, and a peer leader of educational field trips, as well as a regular and consistent volunteer in Sderot. During Operation Protective Edge — under constant fire and peril—Hallel organized and ran the volunteer efforts of the city’s youth movements, religious and secular alike, in order to serve all of Sderot’s neighborhoods, children and senior citizens. “I represent the amazing young people of Sderot, who give of themselves generously,” said Hallel. “I thank G-d for all the good in the world and for the privilege to be born into Am Yisrael.”
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