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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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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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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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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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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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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[= 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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Zvi Thau (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
meaning "mountain of myrrh", also, the name "HaMoR" is also a Hebrew acronym for "Successor to Mercaz HaRav".) While he is not involved in Har Hamor's day-to-day...
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freedom of movement and travel throughout Israel), the first being the Mercaz HaRav massacre in early March 2008. On April 7, 2009, Duwait's house was demolished...
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Dov Lior (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
Israel, he first studied at the Bnei Akiva Kfar HaRoeh yeshiva, and then at Zvi Yehuda Kook's Mercaz haRav yeshiva, where, owing to Lior's being an orphan...
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Zalman Baruch Melamed (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
transferred to study at Mercaz Harav yeshiva. There, he became very close to the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. He studied at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva for about...
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Haifa in 1971 and was educated at Yavneh High School in Haifa and the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem. During his service in the Israel Defense Forces...
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village was established in 1991 by a number of families who had met at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, and was named after Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria. The community is...
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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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Shaul Yisraeli (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
Israel, as a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, as Rosh Yeshiva in Mercaz HaRav, and as President of the Eretz Hemdah Institute. Rabbi Yisraeli was awarded...
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Kabbalist, founding rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav, son of Abraham Isaac Kook Aryeh Levin...
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within the framework of the founding of his central Israeli yeshiva, Mercaz HaRav. Jewish thought became a standard field in yeshiva studies in Israel...
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of Religious Zionism who founded Mercaz HaRav in 1924. Zvi Yehuda Kook, Rosh Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook and son of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook Elyah Lopian,...
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19%. An overwhelming majority of 84 percent supported the March 2008 Mercaz HaRav massacre, in which a Palestinian gunman killed eight students and wounded...
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Yaakov Ariel (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
the Yeshivat Kfar HaRoeh, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, Midrashiat Noam in Pardes Hana, and Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem. At Mercaz HaRav, he was one of the...
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Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (category Mercaz HaRav alumni)
Hesder yeshiva Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. In 1973 he began to learn in Mercaz HaRav Kook, as well as with Rabbi Shlomo Fisher and kabbalists. In the same...
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killing 21 Israeli teenagers and injuring 132. The Mercaz HaRav massacre, also called the Mercaz HaRav shooting, was an attack that occurred on March 6...
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is continuation of 1929 massacre". Ynet. Retrieved 1 October 2012. "Mercaz Harav hit by worst terror attack since April 2006". The Jerusalem Post. Archived...
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which killed 26 and injured 80, the 2002 Bat Mitzvah massacre in Hadera, Mercaz HaRav Massacre in 2008, the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack in Jerusalem, the...
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Hotzberg. Chabad Rabbi Sholom Lipskar celebrated Jerusalem Day at Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem, the most prominent yeshiva in the Religious Zionist world...
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Temple Mount (redirect from Har HaBayit)
Shapira, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, reiterated his opinion that it is forbidden for Jews to enter...
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Zeev HaTorah Yeshiva Zichron Dovid Har Hamor Maale Efraim Hesder Yeshiva Meir Harel Hesder Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Yeshivat Birkat Moshe Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi...
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not deter the gunmen.[better source needed] One such example is the Mercaz HaRav Massacre, where the attacker was stopped by a student, Yitzhak Dadon...
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