Midreshet Eshel
Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem · Year after high school
Midreshet Eshel
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A Sephardic women's seminary in the Old City focused on learning and living Sephardic heritage in Israel, describing its tradition as inclusive and tolerant with devotion to the people and land of Israel.
At a glance
- Outlook, in its words
- Sephardic Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Newly renovated dorm rooms with kitchen access, air conditioning and heating; a madricha lives in; lunch provided daily. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- $34,500 for 2026-27 (Masa). Source (opens in a new tab)
Not on their website when we checked: founding year, class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Tanach, Halacha, Gemara, Jewish Philosophy, Mussar, Sephardic Heritage, Hebrew, Israel Studies, Tefila
- Who runs it
- Dr. Miriam Tawil, Founder and Director
- Also on their site
- Sephardic heritage courses
- South American parallel program (December to March)
- One-month Intersession program
- Hesed and touring
- Price
- $34,500 for 2026-27, as published by Masa. List price on Masa's program page, before any Masa grant. See the source (opens in a new tab)
- Masa grants
- Their site says Masa scholarships are available and sends applicants to masaisrael.org. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their site says it takes part in Yeshiva University's S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program and the Touro Israel Option; students receive a transcript and may earn up to a full year of college credit, depending on their college. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Midreshet Eshel
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Where it is
Address on their website: 54 Misgav Ladach Street, Old City, Jerusalem
See it on the map
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Nearby
Straight-line distances, to give a sense of the area. Walking and driving routes are longer.
- Western Wall (Kotel)190 m · 0.1 mi
- Mamilla Mall870 m · 0.5 mi
- The First Station1.3 km · 0.8 mi
- Emek Refaim Street1.3 km · 0.8 mi
- Zion Square and Ben Yehuda Street1.4 km · 0.9 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport41.7 km · 25.9 mi
The area in pictures
These show the neighborhood, not the school itself.
The year in detail
As described on the school's own website. A missing heading means their site didn't say.
- Language
- The weekly schedule lists one class offered in English and Hebrew versions and an Ulpan
- A typical day
- Per the posted Fall 2025 weekly schedule, Sunday to Thursday: tefila, breakfast, classes in 50-minute slots through the day with a lunch break, dinner and an evening class or workshop. One night a week is off and one afternoon is hesed.
- Shabbat
- Students are hosted for Shabbat by Sephardic families, and once a month there is a Midreshet Eshel Shabbaton in a community elsewhere in Israel.
- Trips
- Weekly touring around Jerusalem, plus trips around the country, north and south (hiking, water trips, separate beaches).
- Chesed and volunteering
- One afternoon a week is given to volunteer work, with a choice of projects: underprivileged children, the elderly, new immigrants, people with developmental disabilities, and the poor.
- Campus and housing
- Renovated dorm rooms, kitchen, air conditioning, heating, closet and storage space, a mirpeset and rooftop used for outdoor learning, and a madricha living on campus. One meal a day (lunch) is provided by the school's caterer.
- After the year
- Part of Yeshiva University's S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program and the Touro Israel Option; students receive a transcript and may earn up to a full year of college credit depending on their college. Also runs a South American program (December-March) and a one-month intersession program (late December to late January).
- Staff named on their site
- Dr. Hilla Aboody - Eim Bayit
- Rabbi Haim Levy - Mashgiah Ruhani
- Rabbi Yosef Benarroch - Rosh Midrasha Emeritus
