David Yellin College of Education

The college's 5,000 students represent all groups of Israeli society; Jews (non-religious and religious), Arabs (Muslims and Christians), Druze and Circassians and new immigrants.

The college is named after its founder and first principal David Yellin who established it in 1913 as part of the "War of the Languages" and the struggle to teach in Hebrew.

The subsequent Principals were Ben-Zion Dinur (Dinaburg), Israel Mehlman, Avraham Even-Shoshan, Moshe Gil, Nissan Sheinin, Itai Zimran and Anna Russo.

Admission included a health certificate and a "good behaviour" report card from an authority such as a rabbi or a school principal.

The college provided private teachers for students with learning difficulties and offered financial aid to poor families.

Although World War I broke out a year after its establishment, teaching and education continued despite the difficult conditions of the Old Yishuv.

During the 1929 Palestine Riots the residents of Beit HaKerem along with adjacent workers district Kiryat Moshe and Bayit Vegan, old and young, took refuge in the seminary's unfinished building.