Himmelfarb High School
Himmelfarb High School is a religious Zionist boys' high school located in the Bayit VeGan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. It was founded in 1920 as Mizraḥi High School and moved to its current campus in 1968. The school is named after American philanthropist Paul Himmelfarb.
The school is noted for its high matriculation success rate, and for a relatively large percentage of graduates entering combat and officer service in the Israel Defense Forces. During the 2023–2025 Gaza war, ten alumni were killed, including Nova music festival massacre victim Aner Shapira, hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and the school's rabbi, Rabbi Avi Goldberg.
Notable alumni
- Avi Bluth, head of the Central Command
- Eyal Gabbai, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office
- Hersh Goldberg-Polin, murdered Gaza war hostage
- Herzi Halevi, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff
- Eli Vakil, neuropsychologist
- Elhanan Miller, journalist
- Emmanuel Moreno, Lieutenant Colonel killed in the Second Lebanon War
- Noam Nisan, computer scientist
- Amit Segal, journalist
- Erel Segal, journalist
- Aner Shapira, victim of Nova music festival massacre
- Nadav Shragai, journalist
- Yonatan Stern, entrepreneur