Founded in 1982, it was established in Israel to cater to post-high school students from English-speaking countries.

The new three-story building includes a beis medrash, dining hall, dormitories,[3] and basketball court.

One of the senior faculty, Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, was murdered along with four others in a terrorist attack on the morning of 18 November 2014 while praying in the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Har Nof, in the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue massacre.

[6] In 2009 the yeshiva took both current and former students on a trip to the former Torah centers of Brisk and Volozhin to mark the 80th anniversary of the arrival of Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik in America.

The students study for ten and a half hours daily, which includes Talmud, Mussar, and Halacha.

The academic philosophy is founded on the classic concept of Torah Lishmah and is centered on mastery of the Talmud.