Ateret Cohanim

Ateret Cohanim
עמותת עטרת כהנים
PredecessorAtara Leyoshna
TypeNon-profit organization
HeadquartersIsrael, New York
Location
Key people
Matityahu HaCohen Dan – Chairman
Daniel Lourie – Executive Director
AffiliationsAmerican Friends of Ateret Cohanim (a.k.a. Jerusalem Chai)
Websitewww.ateret.org.il

Ateret Cohanim (Hebrew: עמותת עטרת כהנים, lit.'Crown of the Priests'), also Ateret Yerushalayim, is an Israeli Jewish organization with a yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It supports the creation of a Jewish majority in the Old City and in Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Notable alumni of the yeshiva include Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham and Rabbi Eyal Karim.