Israel Sci-Tech Faculties’ Hermelin Faculty in Netanya combines Torah examine with educational 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 spiritual research.
Opposite to claims by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) politicians and their rabbinical leaders, it’s attainable for yeshiva college students to get a university diploma mixed with service within the IDF with out compromising their religion. A singular program at Israel Sci-Tech College’s Hermelin Faculty in Netanya combines Torah examine with educational excellence in sensible engineering tracks.
ISTS has inaugurated a brand new ultra-Orthodox hesder yeshiva – combining army service with spiritual 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 position in integrating ultra-Orthodox males into Israeli society.
Because the group behind the primary haredi hesder yeshivot, Chedvata says it affords a singular mixture of Torah examine, army service, and school coaching whereas sustaining the excessive spiritual 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 searching for an academic path for his or her kids that integrates spiritual dedication, educational 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 larger 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 drastically affect the mixing of the haredi group and their contribution to Israeli society.”
