Yeshivat Sha'alvim is a

hesder Hesder ( "arrangement"; also Yeshivat Hesder ) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework. The program allows Orthodox J ...

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, a

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and a yeshiva high school for boys, located in

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Sha'alvim. It is one of the most prestigious Yeshivas in central Israel.

History

Yeshivat Sha'alvim was founded in 1961 by Meir Schlesinger, the rabbi of Kibbutz Sha'alvim. The yeshiva, like the kibbutz, was originally affiliated with

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("Agudat Israel Workers"). Schlesinger was the

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for over 30 years. The yeshiva's campus includes a

(for ''rabbanut'' and ''dayanut''), a teachers college, a yeshiva high-school for boys, an ''

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'' high school for girls, an elementary school and a Talmud Torah. In the early 1990s a National Religious yishuv named Nof Ayalon was built around the Sha'alvim educational campus. Over 400 families live in the yishuv including many graduates of the yeshiva. The yeshiva also has a post-high-school seminary for girls from the United States and other countries, in Jerusalem. The yeshiva is headed by Rav Michael Yammer, son of

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; the kollel is headed by Gidon Binyamin, rabbi of Nof Ayalon. In 2006 Yeshivat Sha'alvim took control of the

Isaac Breuer Isaac Breuer (; 1883–1946) was a rabbi in the German Neo-Orthodoxy movement of his maternal grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch, and was the first president of Poalei Agudat Yisrael. Biography Isaac Breuer was born in Pápa, Austria-Hungary ...

Institute (also formerly affiliated with Poalei Agudat Israel), which issues the scholarly quarterly ''HaMa'ayan''.

Overseas program

Yeshivat Sha'alvim has a program for students from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Hungary, South Africa and Australia. Over 100 students attend it annually. In 2004, Sha'alvim opened a women's division of its overseas program in Jerusalem. Approximately 80 young women attend the program annually and another 15 return for a second year of study.

Notable Alumni

Alumni of Yeshivat Shaalvim include: * David Hirsch,

Rosh Yeshiva Rosh yeshiva or Rosh Hayeshiva (, plural, pl. , '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and th ...

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS ) is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (YU). It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Named after Yitzchak Elchanan S ...

(RIETS), an affiliate of

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, former dean of RIETS and current

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of the

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(cRc)

References

External links

Yeshiva website
(Hebrew version)
Yeshiva website
(English version) {{Authority control Sha'alvim Educational institutions established in 1961 1961 establishments in Israel