Israel Sci-Tech Faculties’ Hermelin School in Netanya combines Torah examine with tutorial excellence in sensible engineering tracks. (photograph credit score: SHUTTERSTOCK)
Israel Sci-Tech Faculties has inaugurated a brand new ultra-Orthodox hesder yeshiva – combining army service with non secular research.
Opposite to claims by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) politicians and their rabbinical leaders, it’s doable for yeshiva college students to get a university diploma mixed with service within the IDF with out compromising their religion. A novel program at Israel Sci-Tech Faculty’s Hermelin School in Netanya combines Torah examine with tutorial excellence in sensible engineering tracks.
ISTS has inaugurated a brand new ultra-Orthodox hesder yeshiva – combining army service with non secular research – at Hermelin, in collaboration with Rabbi Yonatan Reiss. He’s the founder and director of Chedvata, which was established in 2017 by haredim as a pioneering establishment that performs a pivotal function in integrating ultra-Orthodox males into Israeli society.
Because the group behind the primary haredi hesder yeshivot, Chedvata says it presents a novel mixture of Torah examine, army service, and faculty coaching whereas sustaining the excessive non secular requirements of its members.
It already has 4 campuses with greater than 400 college students – on the important campus at Gan Yavne close to Ashkelon; in Netivot; Nesher (close to Haifa); and in Netanya.
Response to rising demand
The yeshiva was established in response to rising demand from haredi households looking for an academic path for his or her youngsters that integrates non secular dedication, tutorial excellence, and repair to the State of Israel.
College students spend their mornings learning Torah and their afternoons on matriculation coursework and a sensible engineering diploma. Upon completion of their research, graduates enlist for full army service within the IDF.
“We at [this new hesder yeshiva] are proud to be a part of this distinctive and groundbreaking program, which permits ultra-Orthodox youth to proceed their Torah studying whereas additionally contributing to Israel by pursuing greater schooling and later serving within the IDF,” says Raz Frohlich, CEO of the ISTS community.
“On this historic juncture that Israel is going through, we’re main a change that may tremendously impression the mixing of the haredi group and their contribution to Israeli society.”
