Kiryat Ye'arim

Kiryat Ye'arim (Hebrew: קִרְיַת יְעָרִים), also known as Telz-Stone, is a strictly Orthodox town in the Jerusalem District of Israel.

Despite the official name of "Kiryat Ye'arim", the town is widely known as Telz-Stone, after the Telshe or Telz yeshiva, who had a branch there between 1977–79,[3] and American Greetings founder-chairman Irving I.

by Menashe Elissar,[clarification needed] a businessman who was attracted to the site as the location of the biblical Kiryat Ye'arim.

[3] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2019 Kiryat Ye'arim had a population of 6,309 predominantly Jewish residents.

Kiryat Ye'arim is home to three Orthodox post-high school yeshivas aimed at foreign students, particularly from the U.S.: Neveh Zion, Keser Dovid and Yishrei Lev.

Kiryat Ye'arim in 1937, [ clarification needed ] with the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant on the hill behind. Photo by Abraham Malevsky .
Kiryat Ye'arim 2022