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Award for Neveh Shmuel: Rav Yaakov Fisher

The Ministry of Education prize for the top yeshiva high school in Israel was presented to the Neveh Shmuel High School for Boys at a Jerusalem ceremony in the presence of Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron. On behalf of the school's faculty and staff, rosh yeshiva Rav Yaakov Fisher accepted the honor, awarded in recognition of the school's innovative programs in Gemara study, its wide range of elective courses, and the students' high matriculation scores.

After six months of rigorous testing by the Israel Defense Forces, 10 exceptional young women have been selected for the first course of Hadas-Intelligence, a groundbreaking new track of the Hadas program which is paving the way for religious young women to join the elite IDF Intelligence Corps. The women will embark upon their Torah studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum this September and begin their two-year IDF service with basic training in July, 2003.

Students in the Ann Belsky Moranis School Theater Arts Program at the Shavei Rachel High School for Girls once again impressed Ministry of Education judges and secured the highest marks with their performances in the Drama matriculation exams. Eleventh graders presented monologues, "From Darkness to Light, From Dream to Reality," while twelfth grade students chose a Jewish adaptation of the medieval morality play "Everyman."

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