An induction ceremony for the first class of cadets was held at AMIT Yehuda High School, Afula. The festive ceremony was attended by parents, teachers and students, as well as the rabbi of Afula, an Afula municipality official and the Israel Air Force commander in charge of the IAF’s cadet program.

The cadet program was launched this year in the yeshiva track at AMIT Yehuda in collaboration with the Israel Air Force. Students in the program will engage in high-level electricity studies in order to prepare them to do their military service in the technology division of the IAF upon graduation from high school. The direct commander of the AMIT cadet squad, Sergeant Major Hanan Azoulai, is himself a graduate of AMIT Yehuda. The ceremony was also attended by AMIT Yehuda graduates who now serve in the training division of the Air Force.

Speakers at the ceremony addressed the importance of technological studies, along with a commitment to Jewish values and academic excellence. At the end of the ceremony, each new cadet received his epaulet and a kippah with the Air Force emblem on it. “The aim of the new program,” said Eli Nissenholtz, principal of AMIT Yehuda Afula, “is to give students the opportunity to study science and technology and do significant military service, in keeping with our vision of excellence in education.”

Founded in 1925, AMIT is the premier education network in Israel, serving more than 33,000 students each year in its 110 schools in 29 cities throughout Israel.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)