For the benefit of those students who wish to spend a year in Israel and concentrate on Jewish studies, the University, with the approval of the New York State Education Department and the government of Israel, has established the S. Daniel Abraham Joint Israel Program under which students may take courses at any one of more than 30 Israeli institutions. A current list of such institutions is available upon request from the Office of Admissions. Students must apply to the Israeli institution as well as to Yeshiva University, and must be accepted by both in order to enroll in the joint program. Contact the Office of Admissions to obtain an application and informational brochure.

The Israel Program has four objectives:

To enable students to incorporate study at Israeli yeshivot, women's schools, or universities into their college years, enhancing their university experience;

To expose students to intense, concentrated study of Bible, Talmud, Jewish Philosophy, and other subjects;

To increase fluency in oral and written Hebrew;

To enable students to learn first-hand about Israel: the land, people, history, and culture.

The program is supervised by a full-time resident director and staff. Its headquarters is at the Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. The program has the status under New York law of an extension center. While no degrees are offered by the University in Israel, since courses are given on a limited and temporary basis for the convenience of students, credits earned in the program are considered as residence credit and not as transfer credit. All courses taken with permission in the program appear on the student's Yeshiva University permanent record and on transcripts made from this record. Students are considered as if they were YU students in New York, and are eligible for all applicable state and federal financial aid programs.