More than Half a Century of Success!

1949 Rabbi Linchner opens trade school with 14 boys from Yemen.

1951 Construction begins in Bayit Vegan

1953 School moves to pre-fab huts in Bayit Vegan; Clark printing institute, first vocational training unit opens.

1956 Alexander P. & Mary Hirsch School of Precision Mechanics opens in factory loft; first permanent building completed.

1957 Max and Elsa Federbush School of Furniture design opens.

1959 First High School class graduates.

1960 Nachlat Shimon dormitories completed.

1962 Construction on Boys Town campus begins; Charles Zarkin School of Lithography founded; Boys Town publishes Jewish Classics Series.

1963 Teachers Training School opens.

1965 School of electronics opens; technical school buildings completed; additional dormitories acquired.

1967 Boys Town develops Israel's most sophisticated technical education center; After Six Day War, Nahal army unit of Boys Town Alumni is established in the Old City.

1968 Construction of academic building begins. Total enrollment: 650.

1969 Ades Academic building and Dining Hall completed, marking an end to the first stage of campus development.

1971 Marjorie and Archie Sherman College of applied engineering opens; Shirley and Milton Gralla National Junior High School opens for 130 economically deprived boys from Katamon neighborhood.

1972 First class graduates from the college of Applied Engineering; Alexander P. & Mary Hirsch School of Precision mechanics dedicated.

1973 Computer Science department opens; volunteer student community service program launched.

1975 Computer Center opens.

1977 Shirley and Milton Gralla National Junior High School begins accepting students.

1978 Arnold and Marie Schwartz Residence Center opens; Horace and grace Goldsmith recreation Center opens.

1979 Israeli Ministry of Education designates Boys Town Jerusalem as regional Technology Center; Boys Town inaugurates first course in computer typesetting in Israel.

1980 Hebrew language ulpan course opens for immigrant Russian students.

1981 Special program initiated fro Iranian students.

1982 Herbert & Evelyn Zimmerman Children's Park dedicated.

1983 U.S. Government A.I.D. grant approved for College of Applied Engineering.

1985 Total enrollment 1000

1986 Special program initiated for Ethiopian students. Total enrollment 1000.

1987 Fred P. Pomerantz Technological Center dedicate; studies in Computerized Numerical Control begin.

1988 Marjorie and Archie Sherman College of Applied Engineering dedicated. Beatrice and Leonard Diener Torah and Science Academy opened. First data processing class graduates.

1989 Samuel and Helene Soref School of Electronics dedicated.

1991 Maria and Joel Finkle Torah and Technology Academy opened.

1996 BTJ Founder, Rabbi Alexander S. Linchner z"tl passes away.

2001 Naale Zion Program initiated for French students who move to Israel without their parents; Cisco Regional Academy opens at BTJ.

2002 Naale program initiated for students from the former Soviet Union who move to Israel without their parents..

2004 Major refurbishing campaign begins on Boys Town campus..

2005 Maks and Leah Rothstein Library opens at Boys Town.

2006 BTJ hosts families from Northern Israel forced to relocate during Second Lebanon War.

2007 David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation Program of Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies inaugurated.

2008 New program for Ethiopian students begun in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Absorption. Summer camp conducted for children from Sderot and other embattled communities in Southern Israel under constant threat of rocket fire from Gaza.

2009 Israel Henry Beren Electronics Center dedicated. Newly renovated Benjamin & Celia Kaswell Sports Field and Robert M. Beren Sports Field are dedicated.