Mizrachi UK will take part in an emergency international appeal next week to raise money for scholarships for yeshivah and seminary students.
Subsidies for British students amount to nearly £400,000 every year. But the economic fallout from the pandemic in Israel has led to cuts in support for gap year programmes.
The “If I forget you, Jerusalem” campaign is being orchestrated by World Mizrachi, the religious Zionist movement, and will benefit around 50 Israeli institutions including several popular with British students such as Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh and Midreshet Lindenbaum.
Last month, Masa Israel Journey, the agency which runs a variety of gap-year programmes for diaspora youth, said it was cutting grants for yeshivah and seminary students from the UK and North America who were below the age of 22.
