Amal’s 2025 Journey in Values-driven Education
2025 will be remembered as the year when education in Israel has been tested as rarely before. In Amal, intense and committed work and carefully crafted partnerships have helped turn uncertainty into opportunity for nearly 30,000 young people in 80 institutions across the country. This year was challenging but we are determined to raise a generation that not only knows how to score well in exams but understands the responsibility it has in rebuilding Israeli society.
For Amal, technology and values are not competing priorities but mutually reinforcing pillars. In schools from Nazareth and Ramle to Beersheva and Safed, students designed rockets, built small satellites and developed life‑saving solutions such as systems to locate survivors after earthquakes – all as part of their regular high‑school learning, not in external labs or start‑ups. At the same time, educators worked intentionally on questions of belonging, citizenship and shared society, ensuring that scientific and technological excellence is always anchored in ethics, responsibility and democratic thinking.
A central achievement in 2025 was the continued rollout of Amal’s flagship PAI program – Pedagogy and AI – which places pedagogy before artificial intelligence and uses AI to redesign how teaching, learning and assessment are done in the classroom. Led by Amal’s technopedagogical innovation team, PAI is built on five core principles: personalization, independent learning, collaborative learning, applied learning and values‑based education and offers a three‑year training journey for teachers in six professional clusters: sciences, mathematics, languages, humanities, technological education and civics. Rather than encouraging generic use of tools, the program helps teachers in each subjec
t understand how AI can deepen disciplinary learning, strengthen critical thinking and make lessons more relevant and tailored to individual students, without replacing the human relationship at the heart of education.
In many Amal schools, this AI‑supported pedagogy translated into rich, multidisciplinary projects that connected technology to real community needs. Students who had learned to formulate effective prompts could use AI as a patient, always‑available “second teacher”, a way to explore ideas, simulate solutions and refine prototypes, from smart suitcases for travelers with disabilities to small hydroelectric turbines that won national innovation prizes and tools for navigating an online world saturated with misinformation. Each final project followed a full cycle, identifying a real‑world need, planning a solution, dividing roles, testing, improving and presenting evidence of feasibility, making AI a means to deepen understanding and responsibility, not a shortcut.
Alongside these innovations, Amal continued to treat technological education as a broad horizon rather than a narrow track, with a strong commitment to inclusion and social mobility. The network now operates all 22 technological majors recognized by the Ministry of Education and offers a complete pathway from lower‑secondary school through technological colleges, while bringing together Jewish, Arab, Druze and Bedouin students in shared learning spaces where each young person can find a path forward to the army, academia or quality employment. Special multi‑year programs encouraged girls to choose technological majors and exposed them to female role models from academia, industry and the security forces, helping bring the share of girls in technological tracks in Amal to levels rarely seen internationally. 
None of this would be possible without strong partnerships.
In 2025, Amal deepened its cooperation with universities, local authorities, civil‑society organizations and international partners, including Jewish communities in the USA. These relationships bring fresh ideas to Amal’s schools, open doors for teacher and youth exchanges and help ensure that Amal’s students are not isolated, but connected to global standards of excellence and responsibility.
For Amal’s friends and donors abroad, the story of 2025 is therefore not only about new labs, advanced curricula or impressive student projects, as important as those are. It is the story of a public, state network that insists on holding together active citizenship and technology, ethics and innovation, local commitment and global partnership, and of thousands of educators and students who, every day, choose to educate for values, for active citizenship, for science and technology, for giving and for an unknown future that demands both competence and conscience. As we close 2025, Amal’s leadership, staff and students join in wishing you and your families a year of renewed hope, health and peace, and a 2026 in which we continue, together, to rebuild Israel through education.