Yeshivat Makor Chaim was established in 1985 under the visionary leadership of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Even Israel).
Today, the Makor Chaim Educational Institution operates a high school located in the Gush Etzion area, south of Jerusalem.
In addition to the high school which serves close to 300 students annually, Makor Chaim also operates the "Beit Midrash L'Hitchadshut" (the Renewal Outreach Center), a nationwide outreach study andprayer program for personal spiritual development as well as several training and development programs for educators, administrators and others committed to focusing on the student rather than on subject material.
It is very common to find two students sitting next to each other in the Bet Midrash, with one learning Likutei Moharan (Hebrew: ליקוטי מוהר"ן, one the main books of the Breslav Chassidic sect), and the other learning a book such as Nefesh Hachaim (Hebrew: נפש החיים, whose author, R' Chaim of Volozhin was a prominent student of the Vilna Gaon and a pioneer of Lithuanian-style yeshivas).
The focus of this program is developing the students analytical skills, and being able to find the conceptual underpinnings of the matter at hand.
The goal of those programs is to uplift the sense of zionism and "chious", spirit of life, in the foreign schools students' Avodat Hashem [he].
Evening prayers begin at 19:15, followed by an hour or two (depending on the learning program in which the student is enrolled) of Talmud Study.
[3] An eighteen-day intensive search resulted in the discovery that the 3 boys had been murdered by their Hamas abductors moments after they were snatched.
Three months after the abduction, buoyed by the allocation of 32 dunams of land by the State of Israel, Makor Chaim and the She'ar, Ifrach and Fraenkel families "Chose Life".