Mir Yeshiva produces: prestigious dinner in Jerusalem

Mir Yeshiva will hold an exclusive dinner right after the holidays, in the Vio compound for events in Jerusalem cover at least partially the large deficit which was created in its coffers.

The event is produced by Jerusalem city council member Shlomo Rosenstein and Rachel Levitan - Commercial Manager for Mishpacha newspaper. The event is designed for 500 couples, where a ticket will cost $ 1000, with an option for deployment in ten installments.

The event will be on the sixteenth Cheshvan and expectations of the management of the yeshiva, it is expected to raise 500 thousand dollars, that would be brought in from the sale of tickets.

Meanwhile, the Mir Yeshiva administration was able to raise a grand donation of three million dollars, `promised to it by the nagid Shlomo Rechnitz of Los Angeles. Rechnitz limited the special bonus in that it depends on recruiting an equivalent sum by the yeshiva, from other donors. "For every dollar you recruit from tycoon friends of the yeshiva, I am also giving a dollar. The more you deepen the funding, the more my donation will increase and can reach up to $ 3 million according to their success at this level," Rechnitz clarified.

Rechnitz's name has been linked recently in that he promised Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz, Hagaon Rabbi Yitzchak Scheiner, that he gives a donation of three million dollars to finance the construction of Beit Rechnitz – a 6 storey building to be erected on Yechezkel Street in Jerusalem.

The name of Rechnitz - Mir Yeshiva graduate in the past, also came up when after the passing of Mir Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon R' Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt"l, he surprised the Roshei Yeshiva, which was sunk in heavy debt those days, when he called from his home and announced: "I give five million dollars. This will be the opening of a fundraising campaign of the yeshiva in the United States. "

Rechnitz is also the man who rallied to stop the foreclosure on the construction of Beit Chabad of the West Coast in Los Angeles known as the "world's first Beit Chabad". Various parties sought to place a lien on the property of Beit Chabad, and to fend off these efforts, Rechnitz showed up and paid a total of $ 2.6 million. Thanks to him, say the local community, the Chabad House remains open and fully functional.

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