General Aharon Zeev Farkash, the former Head of IDF Intelligence, visited the Ben Yakir village in February. The IDF general told the village director Yossi Krothamer that he studied at the village when it was a residential yeshiva in the 1960’ s.
He told students how the village had played an important role in educating him building his character for his subsequent successful military career. After a festive dinner, General Farkash joined the boys in the synagogue for evening maariv prayers.