Locked In By Penina Steinbruch | December 30, 2020
Three months in, with creative solutions and tireless staff members, students are not only surviving, but even thriving
Photos: Pinchas Emanuel
No one was surprised by the Israeli government’s reluctance to admit tens of thousands of foreign students into the country at the beginning of the school year. In the end though, a united effort across the religious spectrum yielded a long list of policies and regulations, as the last weeks of summer were spent making dormitories, dining rooms, batei medrash, and classrooms compliant with Ministry of Health regulations. And now, in the throes of another lockdown and the skies closed again, those thousands of students from yeshivos, seminaries, and other assorted gap programs who made it to this side of the ocean are grateful their schools pulled out all the stops to ensure their year in the Holy Land.