Mercaz HaRav (officially, Hebrew: מרכז הרב - הישיבה המרכזית העולמית, "The Center of Rabbi [Kook] - the Central Universal Yeshiva") is a national-religious...
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2008 Jerusalem yeshiva attack (redirect from Mercaz HaRav massacre)
March 2008, a lone Palestinian gunman shot multiple students at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in West Jerusalem. Eight students and the...
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Abraham Isaac Kook (redirect from Rav Kook)
one of the fathers of religious Zionism and is known for founding the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. Kook was born in Griva (also spelled Geriva) in the Courland...
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Religious Zionism (redirect from Ha-Mitnahlim)
yeshiva founded by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook in 1924, called in his honor "Mercaz haRav" (lit., the Rabbi's center). Other Religious Zionist yeshivot include...
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dominant form of Religious Zionism. He was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. Kook's fundamentalist teachings were a significant factor in...
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Yaakov Shapira (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
Rosh Yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav, and his wife, Penina Perl. He studied in the Yashlatz yeshiva high school, and then at Yeshivat Mercaz Harav. He was ordained...
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Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993. Shapira was the rosh yeshiva of Mercaz haRav in Jerusalem, a position he held since Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook died in...
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[= continuation of] Mercaz HaRav". The Yeshiva was founded when a group of rabbis, led by Zvi Thau, broke off from Mercaz Harav. The broader cause of...
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Merkaz HaRav yeshiva (1914–2007) Zvi Yehuda Kook, former dean of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (1891–1982) Noah Weinberg, former dean of the Aish HaTorah yeshiva...
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Bezalel Smotrich (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
Orthodox rabbi, and Smotrich received a religious education, attending Mercaz HaRav Kook, Yashlatz, and Yeshivat Kedumim. During his short service in the...
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