The Sha'alvim Yeshiva will mark its jubilee year in a large scale event on the yeshiva's campus Tuesday, with the participation of Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Head IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Robert Aumann, Science and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz and other religious dignitaries.
In addition, cantors Dov Hendler, Yisrael Parnas and the Bruner Brothers, all Sha'alvim Yeshiva graduates, will give a premiere performance of a new song about the yeshiva written and produced especially for the event by Rabbi Moshe Mordechai (Mona) Rosenblum.
They will perform alongside internationally renowned cantor Yaakov Motzen, whose brother Avraham, a yeshiva alumnus, was killed in Operation Peace for the Galilee.
The yeshiva, which began its activity with 13 students, has turned into a flourishing educational campus with 2,500 students in numerous institutions, including kindergartens, elementary schools for boys and girls, a yeshiva high school, a Torah only yeshiva for high schoolers, an ulpena, a hesder Yeshiva, a midrasha for girls from abroad, a kollel and more. About 100 families of Torah students and educators live on the campus.