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A five-week internship program for 10th-12th grade teens, working four days a week with Jerusalem-area companies and organizations in their chosen field, with evenings spent on group workshops and Jewish learning and weekends spent touring Israel. Offers separate tracks for public-school and yeshiva day-school students.

$9,500 + $500 application fee (2026); $3,000 RootOne voucher available for eligible participants and TJJ alumni

A track at Midreshet Lindenbaum, launched in 2015, for Orthodox post-high-school young women from abroad who intend to serve in the IDF as Machal volunteers or new immigrants, combining a period of high-level Judaic study with Israeli teachers and students before the draft.

A Sephardic post-high-school yeshiva in Jerusalem preparing young men for college, business, and life through Gemara, Tur, and Beit Yosef study taught via Sephardic tradition.

$10,000 (Masa funding available)

A short, inexpensive introduction to Judaism in Jerusalem for ages 19-31, with airfare, room, board, classes, and field trips included; taught in English with no Hebrew required. Current website shows a certificate mismatch as of this research, so verify the program is still actively running before relying on this entry.

From $499, all-inclusive

A year of chesed (Sherut Leumi / National Service) for girls from around the world through World Bnei Akiva, described as the only real National Service program for overseas girls; participants join the Bat-Ami national-service network with placements at Beit Meir Hospital or the ALUT center for children with autism, alongside Torah classes, seminars, and touring. A sixth distinct World Bnei Akiva program track alongside Kadima, Torani, MTA, Limmud, and Mechina Olamit, all already in this database.

A flexible-length Jewish learning program in the Old City for all ages, running anywhere from half a day to a few weeks.

A highly academic Bais Yaakov seminary with high-caliber, renowned teachers and an extensive schedule of trips and tours.

A one-year teacher-training program for recent Bais Yaakov high school graduates.

A one-year teacher-training program for recent English-speaking Bais Yaakov high school graduates with strong halachic observance and academics; students average above an 86% GPA and come mostly from North America and Europe, with 80% of classes taught in Hebrew to build language skills.

A Bais Yaakov-track seminary for post-high-school women.

A Jerusalem seminary and participating school in Touro's Israel Option; no dedicated website was found during research, so verify current status before relying on this entry.

A seminary founded 24 years ago by Rabbi Hillel Belsky, located near the Kosel, drawing on his decades of experience in girls' chinuch; a participating seminary in Touro's Israel Option.

A Har Nof seminary known for being warm and accepting of every student, with rigorous, intellectually in-depth learning; a participating seminary in Touro's and Hebrew Theological College's Israel Option programs.

A women's Torah institute affiliated with Diaspora Yeshiva, teaching women seeking conversion to Judaism, with a track conducted primarily in Spanish for Spanish-speaking conversion candidates alongside its general English-language track.

Israel's only Holistic Jewish Women's Seminary, combining intensive Tanach, Halacha, and Chassidut study with creative spiritual expression through dance, art, drama, writing, and music, at beginner through advanced levels; also runs a B'not Ruth conversion track for women becoming Jewish. Founded and directed by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum.

A Beit Midrash on a working northern-Israel kibbutz especially suited to women preparing for IDF service, though open to all, with classes spanning Tanakh, Talmud, Jewish law history, philosophy, Chassidut, and gender in Judaism; overseas students are fully immersed with 60-80 Israeli students living on the same schedule.

The only gap-year seminary geared exclusively to women who attended public school or grew up in non-observant homes, run by Rabbi Yaakov Lynn with 20-30 students a year and individualized attention; about a quarter of graduates go on to Touro or Stern College.

A Judaic Studies and Yeshiva track for women ages 20-29 with discussion-style classes, small class sizes, and no dress code or religious commitment required; the women's counterpart to Mayanot's men's post-high-school program already in this database.

A 6-week introductory track at Neve Yerushalayim for women ages 19-35, featuring prominent lecturers on philosophical and theological topics, private tutorials, campus tours, and dorm housing, with financial aid available; a shorter taste of Neve's curriculum distinct from the school's two longer programs already in this database.

A one-year program for highly motivated post-high-school women at the Drisha Institute's flagship Israel yeshiva (opened 2018, Shana Alef track added 2020), offering intensive Talmud Torah alongside advanced learners; overseas students, about a third of the cohort, are fully integrated with Israeli students in a Hebrew-speaking environment with English-speaking staff support.

A seminary opened in 2006 with a dual focus on building textual/learning skills and character, offering Bible, Prophets, Proverbs, Law, and Philosophy classes with dorm housing and mentoring.

A Har Nof seminary for women at all learning levels, with personal teacher involvement and challenging classes.

A Har Nof seminary founded in 1994 with about 50 students a year, offering morning one-on-one learning and afternoon lectures on Chumash, Navi, and tefilla, plus a short introductory "Taste of Torah" track for women new to their heritage.

A yeshiva founded in 1980 by Rabbi Chaim Flom for growth-minded students, drawing from communities around the United States, with trips throughout Israel including the Golan Heights and Eilat.

An English-speaking kollel and yeshiva, running since 1987, teaching Rebbe Nachman's Breslov teachings on faith, prayer, and Torah, with a full in-person track and an International Remote Study option.

A yeshiva in Beitar led by Rav Yaakov Friedman.

An English-language Litvish Orthodox yeshiva founded in 1985 by Rabbi Doniel Lehrfield, with over 100 students from the US, England, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, and Australia.

A Jerusalem yeshiva for post-high-school men, operating as a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

An academically-oriented yeshiva in Efrat named in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.

A yeshiva and learning community dedicated to Torah study alongside a heightened sense of individual and communal responsibility.

A yeshiva founded in 2008 to provide motivated young men with the foundations of Torah and avodas Hashem.

A Shiluv yeshiva combining two years of Torah study with the full three years of IDF service (rather than the shorter Hesder track), emphasizing rigorous study alongside intellectual openness and social consciousness; its overseas program is fully integrated with the Israeli program, adding English-language classes on top of the Hebrew ones, and draws post-high-school and post-college students from the US, UK, and Australia.

A yeshiva teaching and inspiring students in Torah and mussar for over 55 years, carrying forward the mesorah of Slabodka.

A Beit Midrash program on Moshav Beit Meir in the Judean hills for English-speaking men from the US and other Anglo countries wanting a year or more of intensive study.

A yeshiva founded by the Kreiswirth family of Antwerp for overseas students who intend to complete their undergraduate degree, offering college-credit coordination including with Touro's Israel Option.

A Sephardic community yeshiva for post-high-school overseas students.

An English-speaking Litvish Orthodox yeshiva founded in 1982 by Rabbi Moshe Meiselman for serious advanced Talmud students from English-speaking countries, with over 1,000 graduates; students study 10.5 hours daily across Talmud, Mussar, and Halacha.

A nurturing, spiritually-oriented yeshiva in Tzfat led by Rabbi Avshi Weingot.

A 28-day introductory-to-Judaism program in the Old City for ages 18-29, covering topics like practical spirituality and Genesis alongside science, priced as an all-inclusive package with round-trip airfare from New York, meals, housing, and classes; a shorter, more affordable track distinct from Aish HaTorah's longer Aish Gesher and Foundations programs.

$499 all-inclusive (airfare from NY, meals, housing, classes)

A program for 17-19 year olds combining thought-provoking classes, volunteering, touring, and Israeli culture, over a full nine-month academic year or a one-semester option.

A Har Nof yeshiva teaching Jewish philosophy, ethics, Bible, and Hebrew from introductory through advanced levels, accepting students with minimal prior Jewish background.

A Nachlaot yeshiva founded in 2001 by Rav Sholom Brodt, teaching Gemara, Halacha, and Chassidut in a style and spirit inspired by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, with full and part-time tracks.

A Beit Midrash and rabbinical-ordination (Smicha) track for men roughly mid-20s to early-30s, in the Breslov-influenced community of Bat Ayin, with housing and meals provided.

A gap-year yeshiva in Jerusalem for English-speaking post-high-school men.

A gap-year yeshiva in Beit Shemesh for English-speaking post-high-school men.

A highly selective yeshiva in Har Nof accepting only 18 students a year, ages 21-30, for one to two years of advanced, serious Torah study.

A gap-year partnership between Yeshiva University and more than 40 yeshivot and seminaries across Israel, letting Orthodox gap-year students immerse in Torah learning at a partner institution of their choice while remaining fully enrolled YU undergraduates, with separate men's and women's school tracks.

A women's seminary founded in 1995 offering a gap year of intensive Judaic studies with an optional fully-accredited second year, including secular college coursework on campus and a trip to Poland exploring the history of Torah scholarship there; Darchei Binah is a recognized partner seminary for overseas college-credit programs through Touro University, Daemen University, and others.

A gap-year yeshiva for English-speaking young men who feel disengaged from Jewish life or have struggled in more conventional yeshiva settings, pairing Torah learning with trips, music, and relationship-driven mentorship from rebbeim; the affiliated Maalot program offers a fully accredited Bachelor of Arts pathway through Excelsior College.

A co-ed, religious-Zionist Israel year program for post-high-school graduates from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America, combining Torah/Jewish-studies learning with self-empowerment and personal-growth programming, distinct from World Bnei Akiva's other tracks (Kadima, Mechina Olamit, Torani, MTA).

A full-time college for advanced Jewish learning aimed at unaffiliated, college-educated and professional English-speaking women ages 22-30, founded in 1984, offering multi-level classes in Jewish philosophy, history, prayer, Chumash and Rabbi Noah Weinberg's '48 Ways to Wisdom' curriculum; most students are exploring becoming more observant.

An accredited arts and design degree program for religious women, covering visual art, visual communication and drama, with ESL/EPIC (English for Purposes of International Communication) coursework supporting the English proficiency required for an Israeli academic degree.

A hybrid program letting English-speaking students combine a post-high-school yeshiva experience with a real academic degree: Torah/yeshiva studies in English in the morning, and English-taught coursework toward a Computer Science or Business Administration degree in the afternoon, with optional Hebrew ulpan.

The Linda Pinsky School for Overseas Students (Machal) at Michlalah Jerusalem College, founded in 1964 to train Israeli teachers and expanded in 1969 to serve students from abroad; around 140 international students per year study Tanach, Halacha, Mussar and Machshava in a Torah-growth curriculum focused on personal commitment to Torah life.

A women's midrasha built on Religious-Zionist ideals, combining Torah learning with hands-on community service — students volunteer with the children of Beit Hayeled, becoming part of the children's extended foster family alongside their studies.

A yeshiva founded in 1989 just above the Cardo in the Old City's Jewish Quarter, offering full-time beginning, intermediate and advanced learning programs as well as intensive short-term programs for visitors from abroad, drawing students of all ages and Jewish backgrounds.

A post-high-school yeshiva for boys from North America, the UK, South America and Australia, offering Gemara shiurim across all learning levels alongside Mussar, Hashkafa, Chassidus, Tanach and Halacha study, with roughly 70% of students returning for an official Shana Bet second year.

A gap-year program for male high school graduates on Mount Zion combining two to three daily sedarim of Torah/Talmud study tailored to each student's level with the option to earn an accredited Bachelor of Arts degree within a year, located minutes from the Western Wall.

5,600 NIS (~$1,800) per month for yeshiva tuition, room and board; approximately $12,000 additional for the B.A. track; tuition subsidies available on request

A yeshiva founded in 1982 for Jewish, English-speaking college graduates and young professionals in their 20s and 30s pausing careers to spend a year or two on Torah learning, personal development and communal life, blending early-morning prayer, chevrusa study and lectures.

$15,500 per year (tuition, room and board)

A yeshiva for English-speaking college graduates and young professionals in their 20s and 30s, founded in 1978, offering long-term (6+ months), medium-term (3-6 months) and short-term (1-3 months) Torah study tracks in Gemara, Chumash, Halacha and Hashkafa alongside character development.

A flexible-length program for college students on a gap year or semester break exploring Judaism with no background assumed, offering three hours of morning and three hours of afternoon classes covering Jewish philosophy, personal growth, history and text study, with optional evening programming.

A year-long post-high-school program in Jerusalem's Old City for young men graduating from public high schools who want a traditional yeshiva experience, studying Jewish texts at a serious level alongside leadership development, located in Aish's Old City campus with classrooms, a dining hall and gym.

A program at the Jerusalem baal-teshuva yeshiva founded in 1970, designed for motivated post-high-school students who may lack a strong formal Jewish education but have the intellectual drive to independently study classical Jewish texts including Talmud and responsa, taught by faculty trained to teach from absolute zero.

One of Neve Yerushalayim's eleven affiliated schools on its Har Nof campus, offering a dedicated seminary track for post-high-school and graduate-age women alongside the flagship Shalhevet program, part of the broader Neve network founded in 1970.

A one-year program at the world's oldest and largest college for Jewish women (35,000+ alumni since 1970), designed for women who want to deepen their Jewish knowledge, learning skills and spiritual growth in an environment built specifically for baalot teshuva.

A World Bnei Akiva year program geared specifically toward participants from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, immersing them in Beit Midrash learning and Torat Eretz Yisrael at one of four campuses.

A World Bnei Akiva gap-year track designed to enhance a participant's parallel year in yeshiva or seminary with additional leadership training, seminars, Shabbatonim, a kibbutz stay and a wider Israel-wide peer community.

A 9.5-month, co-educational leadership gap year combining shared living with Israeli peers, immersive Zionist learning and hands-on leadership experiences at World Bnei Akiva's flagship international mechina campus.

$17,000-$25,000, with $5,000-$10,000 Masa grants typically available

An immersive, co-ed, modern-Orthodox Zionist gap-year program giving participants a broad taste of Israeli life through internships, kibbutz living, volunteering, Magen David Adom training, a taste of Marva IDF preparation, seminars, Torah learning and travel.

$17,000-$25,000, with $5,000-$10,000 Masa grants typically available

An elite gap-year program for young men combining a Rosh Yeshiva-led Beit Midrash focused on Torah study and business ethics with real internships at Tel Aviv startups, aiming to prepare talmidim for both a Torah-centered life and a career in the Startup Nation's tech industry.

Founded in 1988 by Rabbis Eli Sadan and Yigal Levinstein, this was the first pre-military mechina in Israel, preparing religious Zionist young men for combat and officer roles in the IDF through Torah study, leadership training, and physical preparation. Israeli-only, Hebrew-language program with no overseas track.

Israel's first Sephardic women's seminary, located two minutes from the Kotel, combining Tanakh, Halacha, and Jewish thought with a distinct focus on Sephardic customs, history, and heritage.

A Jerusalem gap-year seminary known for a low staff-to-student ratio, combining Torah study in Halacha, Tanach, and Sephardic heritage with hands-on experiential learning throughout Israel.

Founded in 1990 in the heart of Jerusalem's Old City Jewish Quarter, this Religious Zionist seminary's one-year overseas program offers a high-level academic and experiential curriculum with strong emphasis on Aliyah and connection to Israel.

A Jerusalem women's seminary focused on developing independent Torah learning and thinking skills through rigorous shiurim, in a warm environment rounded out by tiyulim and Shabbatonim.

A Religious Zionist Jerusalem seminary for post-high-school women emphasizing intensive Beit Midrash preparation and analytical textual study of Torah, alongside trips and leadership development.

~$41,000 (2026 rate through Masa Israel, before scholarships/grants); plus a non-refundable NIS 10,000 registration deposit

An academically focused seminary for recent high school graduates in Har Nof, Jerusalem, offering small class sizes and deep text-based study of Hashkafa, Tanach, and Halacha across two learning tracks.

A Jerusalem beit midrash for English-speaking Orthodox women in their 20s and 30s (college graduates and professionals) offering mature, independent-style learning in Chumash, Navi, Halacha, and Jewish thought; targets an older post-college demographic rather than students straight out of high school.

An English-speaking gap-year seminary for post-high-school Modern Orthodox women emphasizing rigorous Gemara, Halacha, and Tanach study through chavruta learning, paired with a strong Religious Zionist focus on connection to Eretz Yisrael.

A one-year Religious Zionist program for young women combining Torah courses, interactive seminars (meaning trips), and Israeli internships, geared especially toward students seeking a growth-oriented religious environment.

A Jerusalem women's beit midrash whose Alisa Flatow programs (Shana Ba'Aretz and a post-college track) offer English-speaking women intensive Torah study in Tanach, Talmud, and Halacha; the flagship English track is geared primarily to post-college-age women rather than strictly post-high-school students.

A Modern Orthodox women's beit midrash founded by Rabbanit Esti Rosenberg in 1997, fully integrating roughly 130 overseas and Israeli shana aleph students each year in rigorous study of Gemara, Halacha, Tanach, and Machshava.

A gap-year seminary based on the campus of Emunah's Bet Elazraki children's home, combining morning and evening Torah study with intensive afternoon chessed work caring for at-risk children.

A women's seminary with a flexible, non-tracked curriculum letting students choose their own course of study in Tanakh, Halakhah, Jewish Thought, and Gemara, combined with chesed volunteering and tiyulim across Israel.

A large, academically rigorous Bet Midrash for women in Jerusalem offering intensive Tanach and Torah She'be'al Peh study alongside internships and social action, with dedicated tracks (Hadas, Shana Bet, Midrashit) for overseas post-high-school students.

A five-week Israel summer tour for 10th-grade graduates from Orthodox/religious-Zionist backgrounds, with historical sites, hikes, an Adventure Week track, and movement-wide events.

A six-week program for 9th-12th grade boys combining intensive Torah/Talmud learning with competitive sports leagues and touring across Israel.

$10,850 + $500 application fee (2026)

A five-week volunteering and touring program for 10th-11th grade girls, featuring service work such as soup kitchens, kibbutz volunteering, and assisting children with disabilities alongside touring.

$10,700 + $500 application fee (2026); $3,000 RootOne voucher available

A three-week touring experience in Israel for public-school Jewish teens, combining hikes, historical/religious sites, and Jewish heritage programming.

$7,000 + $500 application fee (2026); $3,000 RootOne voucher available

A historic Litvish yeshiva founded in 1939, the first mainstream Haredi yeshiva to teach in Hebrew rather than Yiddish, long associated with Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach; Israeli/Haredi students only, no overseas program.

No tuition (standard for Haredi yeshivot)

A religious-Zionist Hesder yeshiva founded in 1977 by students of Mercaz HaRav, long led by Rav Zalman Baruch Melamed (250+ students); maintains a modest overseas program, less prominent than at peer Hesder yeshivot.

A Hesder yeshiva founded in 1972 by Rabbi Eliezer Waldman as a pioneer institution of the renewed Hebron community; primarily serves Israeli students with no confirmed dedicated overseas program.

A premier Hesder yeshiva founded in 1977 by Rav Haim Sabato and Rav Yitzchak Sheilat (~300 students); runs a dedicated program for overseas students with its own rabbi, director, and madrichim.

A Hesder yeshiva (~350 students) known for a Chassidic-inflected, artistic approach to religious-Zionist learning; runs a dedicated English Speakers Program with immersion, mentorship, and dedicated classes.

Founded in 1995 by Rabbi Dovid Fendel, now the largest Hesder yeshiva in Israel with 800+ Israeli students; no dedicated formal overseas learning track, though a US nonprofit supports it.

A religious-Zionist Hesder yeshiva in the Muslim Quarter led by Rav Shlomo Aviner, ~250 students tied to the Ateret Cohanim organization; Israeli-student focused with no widely-advertised overseas program.

A major Litvish yeshiva with ~1,400 students, one of the most prestigious Haredi yeshivot in the world; predominantly Israeli-student focused with no formal overseas program.

No tuition (standard for Haredi yeshivot)

An elite, highly selective Litvish yeshiva led by the Soloveitchik dynasty, known for the analytical 'Brisker method'; serves Israeli/Haredi students almost exclusively with no dedicated overseas program.

No tuition (standard for Haredi yeshivot)

One of the largest yeshivot in the world with thousands of students; its core beit midrash is predominantly Israeli/Haredi, but it also hosts a very large, long-established American/overseas division for English speakers.

One of the world's foremost Litvish (non-Hasidic Haredi) yeshivot, re-established in Bnei Brak in 1944 with thousands of students; Israeli/Haredi-students-only with no formal overseas program.

No tuition (standard for Haredi yeshivot)

Flagship religious-Zionist yeshiva gevoha founded in 1924 by Rav Kook, with 600+ students; Israeli-students-only in practice with no dedicated overseas program.

No tuition charged (standard for Israeli yeshivot)

A Religious Zionist yeshiva founded by Rav Shabtai Sabato, shaped by the teachings of Rav Kook; it runs a dedicated overseas program for American high-school graduates in a small desert community 20 minutes from Jerusalem.

A leading Israeli-style hesder yeshiva with a Religious Zionist outlook, drawing overseas students into a rigorous, mostly Hebrew-language beit midrash focused on independent in-depth study of Gemara and Rishonim.

A Religious Zionist yeshiva inspired by Rav Kook, whose English Department combines morning Jewish studies with afternoon Hebrew ulpan, serving beginners through advanced students, including those considering aliyah.

A Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist gap-year yeshiva ('Serious Torah for a Complex World') emphasizing skills for independent Talmud study, contemporary halacha, and machshava, sharing a campus with Machon Lev.

A gap-year yeshiva combining Torah study in small classes (averaging six students), individualized chessed internships, and weekly tiyulim, with strong personal mentoring in a family-like environment.

A Religious Zionist gap-year yeshiva for overseas young men aiming to build independent learners with devotion to Eretz Yisrael; the first Anglo yeshiva accepted into the Hesder Yeshivot organization, and runs Lev LaChayal for lone soldiers.

A gap-year yeshiva for North American young men founded in 1981, emphasizing rigorous independent Talmud study, intensive chavruta learning, and close rebbe-talmid relationships within a Modern Orthodox framework.

Founded in 2012, the only gap-year yeshiva in Modi'in, built primarily for overseas students; an English-language curriculum covers Gemara, Tanach, Halacha, Jewish history and philosophy with an emphasis on real-world halacha, with students in apartments.

~$35,500 (2026-2027), scholarships available

A Religious Zionist, text-based yeshiva in Jerusalem's Old City for motivated post-high-school young men, offering full-day immersive learning or a flexible schedule combining Torah study with internships or coursework.

A Religious Zionist yeshiva overlooking the Western Wall that integrates overseas talmidim directly with its Israeli student body while providing extra shiurim for English speakers; offers joint credit with Yeshiva University and Touro.

A Religious Zionist yeshiva on the Western Wall Plaza, founded in 1967 by Rav Aryeh Bina; its One Year Program blends academic and skills-based Talmud study for overseas students, with Sephardic, British, and Shana Bet tracks.

A Religious Zionist gap-year yeshiva for young men focused on serious Talmud study, passionate Avodat Hashem, and character development, with a dedicated program for overseas students (in partnership with NCSY).

A Religious Zionist hesder yeshiva emphasizing rigorous conceptual Talmud study and Religious Zionist values; its Moty Hornstein Institute for Overseas Students brings English-speaking students into the yeshiva alongside Israelis.

A leading Religious Zionist hesder yeshiva founded by Rav Yehuda Amital and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, combining rigorous Talmud study with intellectual openness; its Dr. William Major Overseas Students Program integrates English-speaking students into the main beit midrash.