The Education Ministry has launched a program that offers to students of 100 different high schools across the country the possibility of majoring in fitness instruction.
These students will also be able to earn an instructor's diploma while still in school, which grants them the possibility of beginning work in the field immediately upon graduating.
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"There are currently 4,800 students studying in the fitness instruction program, and 500 will soon begin studying for the instructor's diploma," says Abraham Zochman, who heads the Education Ministry's physical education department.
"We are happy to give these students the opportunity to graduate with not only a diploma, but an opening into the job market."
Rehovot's DeShalit School is one of the high schools currently offering the program. The students are divided into three specialization branches: Girls' soccer, light athletics, and gym. Each branch has its
own certificate, which the student receives upon graduating.
DeShalit even founded a new gym thanks to the program, which the school's principal, Leah Desklovitch, described as "an upgrade for the school's physical education department."
"I hope this tendency will grow and develop in specific fields, and that in the future other practical courses of study will be made available," she said.
Yaheli Moran Zelikovich contributed to this report
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