In addition to top quality academic and social education, Israel’s largest scientific and technological educational network provides highly motivated, skilled, professional human resources to the IDF. Israel’s strategic security relies on technologically advanced military superiority. The network contributes to this goal by providing the tools to build the infrastructure of a sophisticated army reliant on technologically adept soldiers.

Nine thousand high school graduates complete their studies at Israeli sci-tech schools each year with seventy percent completing technological studies. Forty-two percent of graduates enlist in combat units, while thirty percent enlist in technology-oriented units.

In addition to its high schools, the network includes 27 colleges where students study for one or two years prior to their military service. Approximately 2,300 of these students enlist annually. Some 1,000 students study in specific study tracks where tuition costs are covered by the IDF.

Soldiers recruited from the network’s schools serve in some of the army’s most elite units.

Tel Nof Air Force High School, located at the Tel Nof Air Force base, trains 90 graduates each year to serve in technical staffs of the Air Force as electricians, mechanics and structural maintenance workers.

Tzrifin Technological High School for Automotive Studies, located at the Tzrifin army base, trains 50 graduates a year to serve in the Armaments Corps.

Tzrifin High School for Technical Studies and Culinary Arts, located at the Tzrifin army base, trains 60 graduates each year to serve in combat support corps (armaments and maintenance).

Helen Asher IAI High School, located at the Israel Aircraft Industries campus at Ben Gurion Airport, trains 80 graduates each year to serve in Air Force technical units.

Oleisky College of Jerusalem trains 40 graduates each year to serve in combat support units and in the Armaments Corps.

The network operates unique programs in collaboration with the Israel Air Force in training students for high quality service in advanced technical professions in aeronautics and space technology. Over one hundred students participate in this program, offered in schools in Hatzor HaGlilit, Ma’aleh Adumim and Yerucham.