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CAE GRADUATES SHINE IN THE SHADOW OF CORONA

By Sarit Newman | July 19 2020 | 1 Comment.

Sixty-two “masked” students recently graduated from Boys Town Jerusalem’s prestigious College of Applied Engineering (CAE) in a ceremony unlike any other in CAE’s 49 years. Despite the coronavirus pandemic halting classes for months, the students managed to complete the intensive two-year curriculum of electronics, software engineering, and electrical engineering. Next week the young men begin […]

RECORD-BREAKING MATRICULATION SCORE FOR BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM

By Sarit Newman | July 16 2020 | 0 Comments.

96.2% of Boys Town Jerusalem students passed the maticulation exam Since its founding in 1948, Boys Town Jerusalem reached the all-time high number of 96.2% of students who passed the 2019 national bagrut matriculation examination. Five of the top-scoring grads were named exemplary students, with their bagrut certificates personally signed by the Minister of Education. […]

FAMED IDF RESCUE TEAM HEAD NOW LEADS LARGE-SCALE CORONA AID TO JERUSALEM NEEDY

By Sarit Newman | June 21 2020 | 0 Comments.

As others fled for their lives, IDF Brigadier General (res) Ben Zvi Elyassi, 55, has raced straight into the world’s most devastating disasters throughout his 30-year military career, directing rescue efforts for victims of war, terrorism, earthquakes and more. Today, the 1982 Boys Town Jerusalem graduate stands at the head of a massive IDF Home […]

THE LAPTOP THAT SAVED HIS EDUCATION

By Sarit Newman | June 3 2020 | 0 Comments.

All of his life, Lavie* has lived with his mother and grandmother in terrible poverty. His grandmother cannot work, and his mother cannot retain a job. When Lavie joined Boys Town Jerusalem in seventh grade, he did not have much. His mother couldn’t afford to pay for school, so Lavie joined on a full academic […]

“CORONA WAS THE LAST THING THEY NEEDED ON THEIR PLATE”

By Sarit Newman | May 17 2020 | 0 Comments.

For students who depend on the Boys Town Jerusalem dormitories for refuge from traumatic situations at home, the coronavirus crisis that closed Israeli schools – and dormitories – has been disastrous, reports BTJ social worker Hadas Knopf. “Our boys desperately need the emotional support, wholesome food, supervision and love that they thrived on at Boys […]

BTJ CEO FACES CHALLENGES HE NEVER IMAGINED

By Sarit Newman | May 3 2020 | 0 Comments.

When Boys Town Jerusalem CEO Amir Kisar first entered the school as a 13-year-old student, he couldn’t have imagined that 40 years later he would be walking through its eerily empty halls with the weight of its future on his shoulders. “The corona pandemic that closed every school in the country is unlike any crisis […]