Eli’s educational system is known for its high-quality institutions, from the tender years and up. The teachers understand the significant nature of their work, as the ones responsible for planting the seeds that will help each child grow into good people, Jews with refined characters, members of the community who think deeply and act energetically.

Early Childhood

There are a range of daycare centers and kindergartens in Eli that cater to children from the age of 3 months until they begin elementary school. There are 2 daycare centers recognized by the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor, for children between the ages of 3 months and 3 years. There are 12 kindergartens for ages 3, 4, and 5. These include a special education kindergarten, 2 Talmud Torah affiliated kindergartens, and 9 national-religious kindergartens.

Schools

Maayan Chaim National-Religious Torani Elementary School for Boys

This is a growing six-year school led by Rabbi Oren Sitvon who, together with a dedicated staff of teachers, instills values and provides an education to all residents of the yishuv. The school believes that everyone deserves and is entitled to high-quality education and a strong foundation. The school strives to see its graduates become “dedicated Bnei Torah, citizens living in a Jewish and democratic country, aware of their heritage and involved in the community, active, influential, and contributing to Israeli society in all areas of life”.

The school has two main flags: the banner of Torah – the heart and soul of the school and compass directing its operations, including its curriculum, social activities, special campaigns, assemblies, and more.  This is combined with the “psychopedagogical” flag – a qualitative, pedagogical study toolbox, methodologies for empowering the students to become thinking, independent, and active learners, and a focus on seeing the individual and building personal relationships. The school has created a diverse, broad study system that integrates the humanities and sciences, developing the students’ skills based on their individual capabilities and strengths.

Shirat Chana Torani Elementary School for Girls

This is a reputable Torani school for girls from 1st to 8th grade, with a warm and pleasant family atmosphere where education is founded upon joy and faith. The girls receive a lot of personal attention, focusing on their individual talents and characteristics, out of a desire to teach them how to love themselves, accept others, and contribute to the nation and the land.

The dedicated teaching staff believe in education that is based on love and joy, purity and delicacy, with the aspiration of imparting values of Torah, kindness, and integrity. The school seeks to revolutionize Torani education for girls and even attracts students from many of the yishuvim surrounding Eli.

Talmud Torah Hadar Yosef 

A long-standing educational institution established with the goal of raising the children of Eli and the surrounding area on values of Torah and dedication to the nation and the land, with a connection and love of the State of Israel. The Talmud Torah includes 2 kindergartens for preschool-age boys and an elementary school for boys from 1st to 8th grade whose parents are interested in raising their children in an environment that develops a sensitivity to holiness, wholesome Jewish values, and Torah from the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, of blessed memories.

The Talmud Torah staff is composed of experienced and committed teachers responsible for transmitting the school’s core educational values, including mutual respect for every person, the value of labor, responsibility and loyalty, while imparting study methodologies and learning tools. Significant emphasis is placed on building the students’ personalities, which results in quality graduates who are accepted to the finest institutions in the country to continue their studies and contribute to the state.

Bnei Akiva Yeshiva High School

The yeshiva high school is dedicated to in-depth learning and living a life of Torah, while clarifying and building one’s personality and cultivating leadership skills with the strengths hidden inside of each student.  One of the central goals of the yeshiva is to preserve the traditional Beit Midrash atmosphere and focus on Jewish studies, while simultaneously developing and teaching a curriculum of sciences and environmental studies.

The yeshiva views its students as important people, and this outlook guides the educational and study process, leading all of the students toward aspirations of unity, tikkun olam and responsibility, through learning, creating, action, and mutual commitment.

During the studies and life at the yeshiva, the Torah is present on all levels, influenced by daily life and influencing it as well. The encounter with Torah studies is made out of a sense of importance, familiarity with all levels of the Torah and their connection to our practical lives. The yeshiva staff is composed of educators who are friendly, have a deep sense of purpose and dedication, and who are also constantly learning and developing themselves.

Bnei David Premilitary Academy

The yeshiva-style premilitary academy in Eli was the first premilitary academy established in Israel – in 5748 (1988). Founded by Rabbis Eli Sadan and Yigal Levinstein, it aims to give young religious adolescents planning to enlist for full military service a foundation of Torah values and a strong religious identity.

Special emphasis is placed on Jewish philosophy and thought according to the teachings of Rabbi Kook, and tools in preparation for the encounter with secular society during their military services and the accompanying challenges. The learning at Bnei David includes yeshiva-style study of Gemara in depth and proficiently, and ideologically, the academy is affiliated with the hesder yeshivot. In addition to the premilitary academy, Bnei David has also opened a Beit Midrash in Eli for discharged soldiers, a Yeshiva Gevoha, and a program for academics called Chai Roi, in memory of the late First Lieutenant Roi Klein, who was a student of the academy.

Informal Education and Leisure Activities for Children

The yishuv puts significant emphasis on informal education and activities for children and adolescents during after-school hours. There is a wide selection of activities available, from youth movements – Bnei Akiva and Ariel, to professional sports teams such as a basketball team sponsored by Maccabi Tel Aviv, an inline hockey team, and a range of classes and sports for all ages, summer camps, and more.

The heart and soul of the community is the youth, in which the yishuv invests significant thought and efforts.

The youth are divided into two groups – 7-8th graders and 9-12th graders.

The youth department is composed of a director and 8 coordinators, who provide for all of the adolescents in the yishuv – religious and secular, younger and older. The objective is to create a social circle that will accompany adolescents during these significant years during which they are paving their own paths and searching for their identities, for meaning and values.