First Bnei Akiva Yeshiva High Schools in U.S. to Open Next Fall

The first Bnei Akiva Yeshiva High Schools in the U.S., patterned after the in-residence Bnei Akiva High School system in Israel, will be established in Monsey, N.Y., in Rockland County it was announced today by Rabbi Nachum Muschel of the Hebrew Institute of Rockland County, and Zvi Assael, director of the Torah Education and Culture Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel, co-sponsor of the new schools. These national schools, our for boys and another for girls, to be known as the Yeshivat Hadar High Schools, will open in the Fall of 1971. Each school will accommodate 20 students who will be required to live in residence even if they are from nearby communities. The schools will be open to any youngster who has graduated from a Hebrew Day School. They will provide comprehensive curricula in both religious and general studies and will feature an Israeli trained Dean-In-Residence (Rosh Mesivta). They will also provide a full semester in the 12th grade in a Bnei Akiva School in Israel. “The establishment of these first Bnei Akiva Schools,” Assael said, “is in response to a great need in America for additional Hebrew high school facilities for children who have graduated from Hebrew day primary schools.”