sentences:  After establishing "Midreshet B'Yahad", a Seminar Center of Judaism, Society and Zionism Studies, the group realized the need for a yeshiva as the next step in strengthening the existing projects by bringing youth to Yeruham.The leader of this group, Shmuel Friedman Ben-Shalom, approached , who at the time taught at Yeshivat Har Etzion, with a proposition to be the Rosh Yeshiva, which he accepted.The yeshiva subsequently opened its doors in 1993.