Hebron Yeshiva

A 1924 edict requiring enlistment in the military or supplementary secular studies in the yeshiva led a large number of students in the Slabodka yeshiva to relocate to the Land of Israel, at that time Palestine under the British mandate.

[1] Upon Grodzinski's return to Slabodka, the Alter transferred the mashgiach ruchani responsibilities to him, and the rosh yeshiva duties to Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Sher, and he moved to Hebron to lead the yeshiva there together with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein.

Twenty-four students were murdered in the 1929 Hebron massacre, and the yeshiva was re-established in the Geula neighbourhood of Jerusalem.

[3] On the day of the 1929 massacre, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Broide, who was appointed Rosh Yeshiva in 5721 (1960/61),[4] was not in Hebron.

The current roshei yeshiva (deans) are rabbis Dovid Cohen[5] and Yosef Chevroni.

The Hebron Yeshiva, Knesses Yisrael (Hebron)
The Alter of Slabodka surrounded by students in Hebron .
Hebron yeshiva students, circa 1920s. All but one of these students was murdered in the pogrom .
Geula branch of the Hebron yeshiva.