High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ateret Cohanim, (lit. Crown of the Priests), also known as Ateret Yerushalyim, is a Religious Zionist yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. Founded in 1978, it uses the building of the historic Torath Chaim Yeshiva. The organization is also dedicated to encouraging Israeli Jews move to live in East Jerusalem and particularly to live in the Old City, which their Judean forbears built prior to exile by the Roman and Muslim conquests and settlements. Some estimate that 1,000 Israeli Jews live in houses that Ateret Cohanim purchased in the Old City since 1978.