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By Larry Luxner Ilan Abecassis of Sderot is still reeling from the events of Oct. 7. That morning, he watched from the window of his home as terrorists in pickup trucks overran his city, gunning down Israelis in the streets and in their homes. In the ensuing days, he and almost all of Sderot’s other […]

Nearly 100 years ago, Bessie Gotsfeld, the visionary founder of American Mizrachi Women (today known as AMIT Children), traveled to pre-state Palestine with a suitcase and a dream of educating the children of Israel to help develop a Jewish homeland.

By JLNJ Staff | February 04, 2021 (Courtesy of AMIT) AMIT Children concluded the calendar year in record fashion—raising almost 13 million dollars to help educate AMIT’s 41,000 children in 104 schools across Israel. “This year presented unique challenges on every level and I am so very proud of what AMIT collectively was able to accomplish,” said Audrey Axelrod Trachtman, AMIT’s president, “We exceeded our pre-COVID annual campaign goal because our partners around the...