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| Location | Dvir Street, Mitzpe Yericho |
| Who it's for | Post-high-school students from abroad, in a small overseas program inside an Israeli yeshiva gavoha (not hesder), whose Israeli students learn for several years before their army service. |
| Head of the yeshiva | Rav Shabtai Sabato; Rav Yitzchak Sabato, Rashei Yeshiva |
| Founded | The yeshiva's English brochure (2024) says Rav Shabtai Sabato, a student of Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav, founded the yeshiva thirty years ago in Mitzpe Yericho. Its Hebrew site calls the yeshiva gavoha "Maor Tuvia". |
| Size | Not published |
| Program length | Not published |
| The year's dates | Not published |
| Learning | Morning seder is Gemara iyun: a short preparation session, seder and shiur. Afternoon seder is Gemara bekiut (shiur, chavruta and chazara), covering a significant portion of Shas. Night seder is chavruta with older Israeli students, plus chaburot and a weekly gathering at a rebbe's home. Further shiurim cover halacha, Tanach, Mishna, emuna, middot, Jewish philosophy and Chasidut, and overseas students can also attend much of the Hebrew curriculum. |
| Shabbat | Two out of every three Shabbatot are "Shabbat Yeshiva", and students spend a number of the chagim in yeshiva. Tefillot have lively singing and dancing, the seudot have zemirot, and students gather for a tish with one of the rebbeim after the Shabbat evening meal; they are sometimes invited to eat with English-speaking families in the yishuv. Before chagim there are special shiurim and a hitva'adut, and students experience both Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. |
| Trips | A tiyul and excursion program visits sites from the times of Tanach, the Second Temple and Chazal through to the State of Israel today, including multi-day tiyulim and off-campus Shabbatonim. |
| Chesed | Not published |
| Campus and housing | A large campus with a new beit midrash at the edge of the yishuv, classrooms, a computer room and a large dining hall, plus a gym, a music room, a soccer field, a basketball court and a cooking room. The site says the yishuv has about 600 families, a grocery store, a pizza store, a gym and a swimming pool, and is twenty-five minutes from Jerusalem by bus. |
| Tuition | Not published |
| College credit | Not published |
| After the year | Not published |
| How to apply | The site's Apply Now button goes to the Joint Yeshiva Application. Listed on the Joint Yeshiva Application. |
| Their own videos | 1 on their page here |
| To the Western Wall | 15.4 km · 9.6 mi |
| To Ben Gurion Airport | 52.6 km · 32.7 mi |
| Website | ymy.org.il |