When Boys Town Jerusalem seventh grader Yosef and his family – including his grandparents – immigrated to Israel from South America, they were fleeing the dangerous, growing antisemitism that prevailed. When they reached Israel’s shores, says Yosef’s mother Devorah, they knew that a nearly-impossible dream had come true. Today, they saw another nearly-impossible dream fulfilled […]
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Boys Town Jerusalem is one of the eight high schools in Israel selected to pilot a cutting-edge course in cyber security, under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s National Cyber Bureau. Thirty top 11th and 12th graders have been handpicked for the intensive extracurricular course which will culminate in their international CSP (Certified Cyber Security […]
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In his professional career as a foreign correspondent for the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Norman Frankel of Skokie, Illinois, travelled the globe to interview top experts and statesmen. Now retired, Dr. Frankel recently came to Israel as a volunteer to tutor high school students at Boys Town Jerusalem in their English […]
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IDF Col. Yaniv Avitan, recipient of the prestigious 2018 Israel Defense Prize of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, returned to his Boys Town Jerusalem alma mater for a close look at how the next generation is being prepared to meet Israel’s defense challenges. Col. Avitan, who heads the renowned IDF team which developed a technological […]
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