Merkas HaRaw Kook

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A building of the yeshiva
Merkas HaRaw Kook in Jerusalem

Merkas HaRaw Kook ( Hebrew מרכז הרב קוק; German: Rabbi-Kook-Zentrum ) is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem , Israel . It is considered the most important religious school of this trend. After the death of its founder, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook , it was renamed in his honor in 1935.

history

The school was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Rabbi Avraham Aharon Borstein first directed the yeshiva, but died two years after taking up his duties. Kook's student Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Harlap succeeded him as head of the yeshiva. After his death in 1951, Rabbi Zwi Yehuda Kook succeeded him, and after his death in 1982 Rabbi Avraham Shapira took over the position. He ran the facility until his death in 2007. His son, Rabbi Yaakov Shapira, succeeded him.

Today the yeshiva has about 500 students.

In the first decades of its existence, the yeshiva had few students, and at times it was not clear whether the institution would survive. The turning point came in the 1950s when graduates from religious schools and high schools of the religious Zionist youth association Bne Akiwa flocked to Merkas HaRaw as the only Zionist yeshiva. The head of the Bne Akiwa organization was Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neria , a student of Abraham Isaac Kook. He urged his students to visit the Merkas HaRaw.

In the massacre of Merkas HaRaw Kook on March 6, 2008, a Palestinian assassin shot 23 people. Eight of them died.

Known students

Web links

Commons : Merkas HaRaw Kook  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yair Sheleg: Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas . In: Haaretz , March 7, 2008. 
  2. ↑ About Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Kook . Friends of Mercaz Harav. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ About the Yeshiva ( he ) Mercaz Harav. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  4. ^ The national-religious camp's flagship yeshiva . Haaretz, March 8, 2008.
  5. ↑ forward.com
  6. ↑ hairetz.com

Coordinates: 31 ° 47 ′ 16.4 "  N , 35 ° 11 ′ 48.1"  E