Ateret Cohanim

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Ateret Cohanim is a religious Zionist Yeshiva situated in the Arab Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Rosh Yeshiva (dean) is Rabbi Shlomo Aviner. The Yeshiva is involved in buying Arab owned property in the Old City.

[edit] 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.