Yeshiva Ateret Mordechai headed by HaGaon HaRav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi Shlita, is working to finalize building permits for a plot it purchased in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim after opposition from some residents of the community was rejected. The yeshiva is optimistic that the plan will be pushed through and work will begin.

Yeshiva officials realize that if approved, due to the cost of the construction of a new building, it will take a number of years for the project to be completed. Therefore, the yeshiva will have to find a temporary venue after leaving its current home in Bayit Vegan. It appears the yeshiva will be moving to Modi’in Illit as City Hall has given it a 10 duman (2.5 acre) plot adjacent to Yeshivas Knesset Yitzchak -Kiryat Sefer.

This should occur soon as the yeshiva is compelled to immediately evacuate the buildings it occupies in Bayit Vegan. In the initial stage, it will receive utility services from Yeshivas Knesset Yitzchak -Kiryat Sefer.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)