De Shalit High School is a high school

High school

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 and two sister junior high schools located in the city Rehovot

Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 112,700. Rehovot's official website estimates the population at 114,000.Rehovot was built on the site of Doron,...

, in Israel

Israel

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. It is named after the physicist

Physicist

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 Amos de-Shalit

Amos de-Shalit

Amos de-Shalit was a distinguished Israeli nuclear physicist.-Biography:Amos de-Shalit was born in 1926 in Jerusalem in the then Palestine Mandate. He grew up in Tel Aviv and graduated from Gymnasia Balfour....

 (1926–1969).

The school has around 2000 students. The pupils in the high school may choose two major subjects out of the following: chemistry

Chemistry

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, biology

Biology

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, physics

Physics

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, computer science

Computer science

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, economics

Economics

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, psychology

Psychology

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, geography

Geography

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, Bible

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, history

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, literature

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, music

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, drama

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, art

Art

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, French

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, Arabic

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 and Sport

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. Along with these subjects, all pupils have to learn mathematics

Mathematics

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, English

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 and other core subjects.
In addition to intaking and enrolling students from Rehovot, De Shalit High School also absorbs students from the nearby town of Kiryat Ekron.

Students must wear to school a blank shirt, with a color of their choice, with the school logo on it.

Relation to the Weizmann Institute of Science

De Shalit High School works tightly with the Weizmann Institute of Science

Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....

. Many students of De Shalit High School participate in many science related projects, mainly in the Davidson Institute of Science Education.