Beit El yeshiva explained

The Beit El Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת בית אל) is a Religious Zionist Yeshiva situated in the Israeli settlement of Beit El, a community in the Binyamin region near Ramallah in the Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank.

History

The Yeshiva was founded in late 1977 by a group of students from the Mercaz haRav yeshiva in Jerusalem. The students originally lived on a nearby army base, but today the yeshiva has its own premises, and over 250 students enrolled. The rosh yeshiva (dean) is Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed.

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News was founded and is maintained by the Beit El Yeshiva.^[1] The Beit El Yeshiva also founded Yeshiva.co, a large Jewish website.^[2]

The Beit El Yeshiva Center also includes:

• A yeshiva (religious studies) high school for boys (junior and senior yeshiva high school), Yeshivat Bnei Zvi,^[2] also known as Bnei Zvi Yeshiva Ketana (pre-yeshiva high school; ketana stands for "small")^[3]
• An ulpana (religious studies) high school for girls, Ulpanat Ra'aya^[2]
• An ulpana high school for girls "with a wide variety of studies", Tal Ra'aya^[2]
• A mechina pre-military program for young men^[3]

Further reading

• News: Inside the Religious West Bank Settlement That Forged President Trump's Israel Policy . Judy . Maltz . 17 January 2017 . Haaretz.

External links

• Beit El Yeshiva Center Official Website
• Bet El Kabbalists by Pinchas Giller, Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World entry, p 5 sq

Notes and References

1. "The Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, is a graduate of the Beth El Yeshiva, the organization that founded and maintains Arutz Sheva."Web site: Goldstein . Rabbi Warren . A Passover Message from the Chief Rabbi of South Africa . April 2012 . Arutz Sheva . 1 April 2012.
2. http://www.yeshiva.co/about/ Official site, Bet El Yeshiva Center
3. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139741 Arutz Sheva, 21/09/10