Netzach Opens New Youth Group for Charedi Girls
Students and staff from Netzach’s Darkei-Sara High School are pioneering a new youth movement for Charedi girls who study in state-regulated Charedi elementary schools in Jerusalem. Youth movements play an extremely important role in Israeli society, helping to bring together kids from diverse backgrounds and nationalities, and welding them into a productive community of Israeli […]
Haredim don scrubs, smashing medical glass ceilings
Jerusalem College of Technology & Netzach’s Medical Mechina program helps aspiring Haredi medical professionals pursue a career path that few of their peers have attempted before, while simultaneously maintaining their religious identity and lifestyle.
“?What Did You Do During the War”
Our children are not immune to the crisis atmosphere that has pervaded Israel since the Hamas attack on October 7, and many of them want to help Israel’s war effort. Staff at the Netzach elementary and high schools have been working hard to help their students deal with a wide range of emotions during this […]
A Time For Question Marks
by Michael Nachtiler, CEO of the Netzach Educational Network, Cheshvan 5784, October 2023 The events of Simchat Torah, 5784, do not call for conventional soul-seeking. Above all, they call us to convert our exclamation marks to question marks. Simchat Torah morning. Stepping out of the house, worrying about how much candy the kids might consume, […]
Fanning the Inner Flame
Mrs. Sarah Gordon, Principal of the new Seminar Shalhevet girls’ high school in Ramat Beit Shemesh, wrote this article for her local magazine “Connections”, sharing her educational philosophy with parents at the start of the new school year. Picture this: With a bang the door is thrown open. Shoshanah bounds into the house, full of […]
Social and Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning is crucial to the successful integration of Netzach’s Charedi graduates into the workforce as confident and engaged members of wider society.
Expanding to Meet Charedi Demand for Bagruyot
The Netzach Educational Network, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Bombach, has opened four new schools this Fall, including two new Yeshiva High Schools teaching Torah and Bagrut subjects to Charedi boys. Mayor Aliza Bloch visited one of Netzach’s new Yeshiva High Schools in Beit Shemesh – Chayei Olam – to meet the students and […]
Reaching for the Sky
The Netzach Educational Network held its annual staff conference in Jerusalem with 250 teachers and administrators, 55 more than last year! They were addressed by Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Rav David Lau, Rabbi Yaakov Haber from Beit Shemesh, and Shai Calderon, Director of Haredi Schools at the Ministry of Education (below). Netzach’s Chief Executive Michoel […]
Visiting Beitar with Hagai Segal
Editor-in-Chief of Israel’s leading “Makor Rishon” newspaper, Hagai Segal recently visited the Midrasha HaChassidit, and this article was published in his Makor Rishon column on June 30, 2023. The head of a Kollel for Avreichim (married Yeshiva students) in the North of Israel sent me a copy of a document showing the different government payments […]
Helping Haredi Students Prepare for Medical School
Netzach Educational Network has opened a Medical School Preparatory Program (Mechina) in Jerusalem, for Haredi men and women who want to become doctors, and who have already earned a relevant first degree. Becoming a doctor is an impossible dream for most Haredi students in Israel. This is because of the intensity of the academic studies […]