 Among them are a Talmud Torah for boys, the Be'er Miriam Talmud Torah for girls, the Hitzim yeshiva high school for boys, co-founded by Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith who also serves as mayor of Itamar, and the Itamar Hesder yeshiva founded by Rabbi Brigadier General Avichai Ronsky, IDF Chief Rabbi from 2006 till 2010.According to Goldsmith, there were roughly 400 students in Itamar by 2011.In March 2012, three children and a teacher were killed in the shooting attack at Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse, France.