The School
Established in 1949 to provide a home and education for young immigrants to the newly created State of Israel, Boys Town Jerusalem has become one of the country’s largest and most respected educational and residential developments.
Boys Town was founded by Alexander S. Linchner, a Brooklyn-born rabbi who, after the Holocaust, devoted his life to building a school for the Jewish children who poured into Israel from countries around the world. Many of these children had been orphaned due to the horrors of the Holocaust. His goal: to provide them with a quality education that would prepare them to build the State of Israel with technological skill and traditional Jewish idealism.
Boys Town Jerusalem is a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust.
Over 840 students, ranging in age from 12 to 20, now study at the stunning 18 acre campus in Bayit Vegan. The children and grandchildren of immigrants from 45 countries on six continents, they mirror the ethnic diversity of the Israeli population. More than 75% come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and require substantial scholarship assistance. Many of the students have made aliyah, often without families or friends, because they have been the victims of anti- Semitic attacks in the countries of their birth, in order to have the opportunity of studying at Boys Town Jerusalem.
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