Midreshet Torat Chessed
Netanya · Year after high school
Midreshet Torat Chessed 2026
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A year-in-Israel program that combines Torah learning in the mornings and evenings with intensive afternoon chessed work with children at the Bet Elazraki children's home.
At a glance
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Netanya (Coast and center) Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Villas near the main campus, with laundry and cooking facilities. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- Not published. Ask what's included.
Not on their website when we checked: founding year, class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Beit Midrash Torah study
- Who runs it
- Shira Melamed, Director; Rabbi Michael Sunshine, Rosh Beit Midrash
- Also on their site
- Daily work with children at Bet Elazraki in small groups
- Tiyulim and shabbatonim
- Price
- No price is published on their website. Ask the school, and ask what's included.
- Masa grants
- Their website doesn't say. Most year programs are registered with Masa, so ask. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their website doesn't say. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Midreshet Torat Chessed (MTC) Promotional Video 2022
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A Day In The Life at MTC 2019-20
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Where it is
Address on their website: 7 Rabbi Tarfon Street, Netanya (Bet Elazraki campus)
Housing: Student villas near the campus
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Nearby
Straight-line distances, to give a sense of the area. Walking and driving routes are longer.
- Netanya train station2.8 km · 1.8 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport38.0 km · 23.6 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.
- A typical day
- Daily schedule PDF on the site (dated Fall 2024): Sunday to Thursday, Shacharit, four morning class periods and a lunch class, afternoon chessed with the Bet Elazraki children, dinner, and night seder with optional learning afterward. One night a week is off.
- Shabbat
- Each month has one "in" Shabbat with the Bet Elazraki children, one school Shabbat (on campus or elsewhere in Israel) and two "out" Shabbatot for visiting family or friends. The campus stays open for students who want to stay in the dorms.
- Trips
- Day tiyulim and overnight (multi-day) tiyulim during the year, and shabbatonim in communities around Israel.
- Chesed and volunteering
- Afternoons are spent at the Emunah Bet Elazraki children's home (over 200 at-risk children ages 6-18). Each student is assigned to a group of children with 1 or 2 other students and Israeli Benot Sherut: meeting them after school, homework help, activities and mentoring, with weekly supervision meetings.
- Campus and housing
- Bet Elazraki campus with beit midrash, classrooms, dining room (three hot meals a day), pond, gazebo and basketball court. Villas have several bedrooms, living/dining room, full kitchen, washing machine and dryer, treadmill, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, safes in each room and a backyard; a madricha lives in each villa.
- Rules they publish
- Curfew is 12:00 midnight, and 1:00 AM on Motzei Shabbat and the weekly night off. Dress code: skirts covering the knees sitting and standing, sleeves covering elbows, necklines at the collarbone, midriff covered, nothing tight, ear piercings only.
- Staff named on their site
- Alexis Levy - Assistant Director
- Nati Lopukhin - Eim Bayit
- Rabbi Michael Sunshine - Rosh Beit Midrash
- Sara Dinerstein - Chessed Coordinator
- Lauren Friedman - Programming
Questions their website answers
- Where is MTC located?
- On the Bet Elazraki campus in the coastal city of Netanya, with students living in villas nearby.
- How do the Shabbatot work?
- Each month there is one Shabbat with the Bet Elazraki children, one school Shabbat and two free Shabbatot, and the dorms stay open.
- Do I need good Hebrew to be able to work with the children?
- No, Hebrew is not required for acceptance, and students take ulpan classes.
- Is there a curfew?
- Yes, midnight every night except Motzei Shabbat and the weekly night off, when it is 1am.
