Training Human Resources in Creativity,
Endowing Them With Human Values

Ort’s dynamic development derives from the dedicated work of its excellent pedagogical team, and from astute management by the Network's leaders. This group has its finger on the pulse of worldwide education, so as to include new and innovative subject material in the pedagogic system and to equip school laboratories and workshops accordingly. Teachers, instructors and guidance counselors undergo periodic training session and seminars, which keep them up to date on frequent innovations in the fields of technology, science, humanities and didactics.

The existence of the ORT Network as a ramified family extending over all of Earth’s continents (except Antarctica) is of great benefit to all its branches, both pedagogically and financially. From this close connection there also emerges an intensifed Jewish education for ORT students all over the world, which helps them maintain their Jewish identity.

The comprehensiveness of the education ORT Israel offers its students enables great variety in its educational frameworks, in which youngsters on all levels can be found, from “special care” pupils to exceptionally talented students who finish their high shool education with Matriculation Certificates pointing to the highest achievements. Additional possibilities for ORT students are extended studies in ORT Colleges leadingto Associate degrees (technician or practical engineer) or Baccalaureate degrees (enginner or teacher of technology). Curricula differ from one educational framework to the next, and are diver - sified and updated in accordance with the dynamics of - and innovations in - the economy.

The network's main educational tracks are electricity-electronics, mechanics, building and architecture, woodworking, information technologies, industrial chemistry, biotechnology, administration, industry and management, tourism, the design arts, communucation technology, fashion, beauty care, paramedical professions, marine education, settlement education, and management, tourism, the design arts, communication technology, fashion, beauty care, paramedical professions, marine education, settlement education, and general scientific-technological tracks - all in addition to basic subjects such as Bible studies, Hebrew language, literature and expression, English, mathematics, physics, chemistry,biology, history, civics, geography, oral law, Israeli thought, and Arabic as a second foreign language.

Ort Israel's dynamic development stems from the efficiency of the human resource within the network. Study programs and teaching methods were developed in accordance with the requirements of the Age of Technology, and the creative work of the teachers and student advisors bore pedagogical fruit in every educational domain. Hand in hand with technological and scientific erudition, ORT also initiated general education and the humanities, and placed great weight on learning values, social education, and communication with Diaspora Jewry. ORT's ambition is to endow every graduate with a rich social and humanistic background in addition to information and learning.

Merging all of the foregoing creates the totality essential to a person living and working in the twenty-first century and indeed, the proof of this lies in the huge demand for ORT graduates in all technological systems: military, industrial and service.

Close to 100,000 youngsters and adults occupy the school-benches of ORT Israel every year. The number of the network’s graduates is approaching half a million, and they can be found in every field of endeavor - a powerful infrastructure of human resource, trained in accordance with the needs of the economy.

ORT's partners in achievement are the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, the Ministry of Absorption, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), many industrial enterprises, the Jewish Agency, the "Joint", and more.