Ateret Cohanim is a religious Zionist Yeshiva situated in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Shlomo Aviner. The Yeshiva is involved in buying Arab owned property in the Old City. The Religious Zionist Movement, or Religious Zionism is an ideology combining Zionism and Judaism, which offers Zionism based on the principles of Jewish religion and heritage. ... Yeshiva or yeshivah (Hebrew: ישיבה pl. ... ... Jerusalem (; Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds, Greek Ιεροσόλυμα), the capital of Israel, is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ... A Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (plural in Hebrew: Roshei yeshiva, but also referred to in the English form as Rosh yeshivas) is a rabbi who is the academic head, or rosh (ראש), of a yeshiva (ישיבה), a college of higher Talmudic study. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are a large and heterogeneous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ...

History

The Yeshiva was founded in 1978, following the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. The Yeshiva's premises had been used prior to the 1936 Arab riots by the Torat Chaim Yeshiva, and had been entrusted to an Arab caretaker for the period between 1934 and 1978. The Torat Chaim Yeshiva was the only one of over 80 synagogues and yeshivas that was not destroyed by the Jordanians. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ...

External links

• Official site of the Yeshiva