YBA Netivot Chaim aims to provide a Torani educational option for boys from northern Jerusalem and nearby settlements. Pisgat Zev is the largest neighborhood in Jerusalem with a working class population that resembles the socioeconomic level of a development town. The school places an >emphasis on sports, in which the boys excel, together with a strong Jewish education. The students have earned numerous trophies in a variety of sport competitions.

YBA Netivot Chaim maintains an open registration policy, which means that many students come from traditional, rather than religious families, and that a high proportion cannot afford to pay tuition and fees. As a result, the yeshiva has a greater need for scholarship funding than other YBA schools to maintain YBA’s high educational standards. Matriculation tracks include biology, computers, art, geography and Land of Israel studies.

Due to budgetary constraints, the yeshiva reduced the number of teaching hours this year to just six hours per day, and opened an afternoon Beit Midrash program staffed, in part, by rabbinical students studying in a Kollel Yeshiva located within the yeshiva’s building. Students volunteer every week by delivering food to the needy, working with the Citizen’s Alert Patrols, and visiting the sick and elderly in the community, as well as engaging in outreach work to help bridge the gap between observant and non-observant neighborhood residents.

Some of the Yeshiva’s most urgent needs:

1. Scholarship Fund (for increase of 2 hours per day) – $125,000
2. Beit Midrash furniture and Torah library – $50,000
3. Upgrading of Educational Environment and Landscaping – $50,000
4. Upgraded of Computer Laboratory – $20,000