IN THIS ISSUE Visual Art Exhibition 2016
EMIS visual arts students presented a marvelous IB end of the year exhibition reflecting students personal themes.

Frisbee Team

The Ultimate Frisbee CAS is one of the most popular action CASes for EMIS students. Together, we practice for an hour and a half each week, and have opportunities to participate in larger events around Israel. I have taken part in several women's clinics, and even events with the womens national team. These opportunities connect us with other Ultimate Frisbee players from both Arab and Jewish communities around Israel. 
 

  

The EMIS Ultimate Frisbee Team during the “Ultimate Peace” tournament last month that is part of the Ultimate Peace project. It was an amazing opportunity to improve our skills as well as to exercise the EMIS mission of peace in action.
    

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Best Delegation Award in the TIMEMUN Conference

MUN (Model United Nations) is one of EMIS' most active CAS clubs. It is completely initiated and run by EMIS' students since the school opened last year. TIMEMUN is Israel's largest annual MUN conference and is held at the American International School in Even Yehuda. Over forty delegations with hundreds of delegates from communities all over the country participated in the event.
 

      

 
During the conference the delegates experienced large scale simulations of the UN assemblies, and committees' sessions, and enhanced their understanding of global issues and ethical considerations.
 

 
Other than the learning experience, the conference has a competitive aspect. At this year's conference the EMIS delegation won "the best delegation award" in addition to six personal "Best Delegate" awards. This is the second year in a row that EMIS participates and wins this prestigious title.
 

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Project Week
EMIS' first Project week took place on 3-6/2/2016. The overarching goal of project week was to allow students to acquire real, substantial, out-of-class learning experiences. Over five days, students planned, organized, and pursued real issues and activities of their personal interest as they experienced new places, met new people and learned new things.
   
Twenty different projects were carried out in Israel, Palestine, and even in Jordan where a group of students joined a local refugee aid organization and visited and volunteered in "off-the-map" refugee camps. In another project, a group of EMIS stduents hosted a group from our partner school in Gaza here at EMIS and created a Spirulina growing system that we now plan to replicate at the Gaza school. The Gaza students plan to use this knowledge and teach other local schools how to build the Spirulina system and have access to this "super-food" as a source of nutrients, vitamins and minerals that is easy to grow and very efficient. Another group worked for several days in an underwater aquarium and reserach center in Eilat, learning about environmental issues related to human impact on its surrounding, while yet another group worked in an organic farm in the north of Israel.
  
Project week was possible due to the generous contribution of Jane and Larry Sherman.
 

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Grand Slam EMIS
On February 19th , 43 EMISers (Including Mr. OD, Ms. Tamar and Mr. Chaim) ran each, on average, 20 and a half laps around a designated area in Hakfar Hayarok. In total, there were 866 laps completed. Since the participants were raising approximately 3 NIS with the completion of each lap, a total of 2,600 shekels was eventually raised!
      
The money raised will be donated to the SHEMA organization for the deaf and hearing impaired in Israel, hopefully lighting a bit the weight of their financial struggles.
     

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TEDx

January 2016, the first EMIS Youth Tedx event  was held in Tel Aviv University. The event was initiated & produced by our Brazilian 2nd year EMISier, Yasmim Franceschi, who worte:
  
“I decided to initiate and organize TEDxYouth@EMIS, after attending TEDxRio in 2014 and getting truly engaged by TEDx community and ideas.  TEDxYouth@EMIS was independently organized by EMIS students, happening on the 20th of January at Tel Aviv University.
 
It was the first time I could sense the impact and power young students can have when working as a community towards a certain goal. A small, half-day event was just a little demonstration of the power we can have when working together; the power to live ideas, experiences and perspectives in people’s minds. Power to create inspiration and a fertile environment for innovation and action.
  
One of my main goals was to initiate a TEDx community in my school, which is in its first year. I’d like students to identify with the vision of voicing and staging relevant ideas on diverse areas of knowledge. That is why we had speakers with a musical expertise like Noa, political background like Yossi Beillin , scientific research like Miri Yemini, theater and production, education and etc.”
  

  
 

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EMIS ECO Peace CAS 2015-2016
Eco Peace is a CAS activity that perfectly aligns with EMIS mission to make education a force for peace and sustainability in the Middle East. During the weekly meetings, the students become familiar with the local and regional shared water challenges through tours and theoretical research. 

This activity provides an opportunity for students to lead water-related initiatives at the school and in their home communities. The students are also invited to participate in Eco Peace international camps that brings together Jordanians, Israelis and Palestinians students.
   

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The Life-Jacket Project