Yeshivat HaHesder Yerucham

In the early 1970s, a group of Religious Zionists settled in Yeruham with the goal of improving the south of Israel, and helping to increase the quality of life for the residents of Yerucham.

Over time, the group grew in number and expanded its activities by taking on educational responsibilities as well.

After establishing "Midreshet B'Yahad", a Seminar Center of Judaism, Society and Zionism Studies, the group realized the need for a yeshiva as the next step in strengthening the existing projects by bringing youth to Yeruham.

The leader of this group, Shmuel Friedman Ben-Shalom, approached Rabbi Eliyhau Blumenzweig [he], who at the time taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion, with a proposition to be the Rosh Yeshiva, which he accepted.

During the Iron Swords War, nine of the yeshiva's graduates and current students were killed in the battles in the Gaza Strip.

The yeshiva offers weekly classes in Tanakh, Jewish philosophy, Hasidic philosophy and the works of Jewish scholars such as Maimonides, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, the Maharal of Prague, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Abraham Isaac Kook, and many others.

Many of the students use the entire afternoon seder for learning machshava, tanach, mussar, and emmunah.

The yeshiva believes that the keys to solving Israel's socioeconomic gaps lie in integration and education.