For two years, young women will study Torah alongside a bachelor's degree or engineering in the fields of cyber and computers. • The stated goal - entry into special technology units in the IDF and the GSS
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For the first time, a unique seminary is expected to open next year, in which religious young women will study Torah alongside technological training with the stated goal of integrating into classified technology units in the Shin Bet, as part of the national service, and in the IDF.
Midreshet "Mabat" (technological security college), founded by "Pisgah Cyber" and operating within Ariel University.
Offers two tracks - a bachelor's degree in computer science and a degree in software engineering with a specialization in data science and cyber studies.
At the same time, the young women will study faith, halakhah, residents and Jewish thought. These are particularly challenging tracks, which will operate throughout the day - Torah studies in the morning and technological training in the afternoon and evening.
Leading the new venture are former senior IDF and GSS officers, including Brigadier General (Res.) Dudu Tzur, a former intelligence chief and now the director of the Intelligence Heritage Center.
In addition, member of the advisory committee to the seminary, Arik Barbing, known as "Harris" - a former senior member of the Shin Bet who previously served as head of the cyber network and as head of the Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria region.
One of the lecturers will be Maya Ohana Moreno, the wife of the late General Staff patrol officer Emanuel Moreno, who fell in the Second Lebanon War and whose picture is still banned from publication.
"We encourage young women to connect the sacred with the profane. The combination of the two is our doctrine of redemption, it is the people of Israel with its land and soil - growing and flourishing," she said.
The fact that the college operates with the backing and accompaniment of senior officers in the Armed Forces and the Shin Bet is, according to its founders, a multiplier of power when it comes to admission to the prestigious units.
The midrasha states that "the midrasha girls will be able to choose between national or military service and will receive preparation, full support and accompaniment in the entrance exams for the technological units in the various security bodies. The midrasha's technological training will give them an advantage over other candidates."
"Seven years after the 'Summit' was established, to train boys and girls in cyber, we realized that the canvas needs to be expanded. We recognized that there was a very great need from religious girls," explains Lt. Col. (Res.) Rami Lieber, CEO of Netivei Torah and Technology and one of the founders The seminary.
"We let the spiritual and technological training be built - and each one decides whether to go into national or military service" /
Unlike other schools, Mabat is expected to conduct strict screenings because the stated goal is to integrate the young women in elite technological units.
"We have no interest in the sadness of a girl who will not stand up to school efforts or will not fit the job."
Although the young women are not committed to national service for more than one year in advance, the midrasha says that in practice there is no chance that they will not perform significant and long service, even more than two years in some cases.
"Data show that the girls who reach such positions remain at almost one hundred percent for a second year. In the army, they even continue for much longer service."
