Yeshivat HaKotel

Most of the students are in the Israeli Hesder program which combines at least fifteen months of army service with several years of Yeshiva study.

Yeshivat HaKotel has a program for English-speaking students that offers integration with Israelis, a broad comprehensive curriculum in Talmud, Tanakh, Machshava, Halacha, and Mussar.

As of 2011, more than 100 students from Latin American countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Colombia, and also from Portugal and Spain, have graduated this program.

[2] The yeshiva was founded shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967 in the Old City of Jerusalem by Aryeh Bina, who at that time was a rabbi in Yeshivat Netiv Meir.

The first Shavuot after the war, approximately a week after the recapture of the old city, Bina and his students began studying in former Jordanian barracks, then relocated to a homeless shelter in the "old square."

The Yeshivat Hakotel building, situated above the arches of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva
HaKotel Yeshiva students walking to the Western Wall on Sabbath eve with the Rosh Yeshiva Reb Yeshayahu Hadari
Yeshivat Hakotel building in the Old City of Jerusalem