Mercaz HaRav

[3][4] Located in the city's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, it has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Rabbi Kook's teachings.

[5] The yeshiva views its role as Rabbi Kook's vision for a central institution for the spiritual revitalization of the Jewish people.

The yeshiva grew out of an evening program for young scholars who gathered to hear the recently appointed Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem lecture in Halakhah and Aggadah.

[12][13] His student Rabbi Hanan Porat set out to restore the Jewish settlement in Gush Etzion immediately following the Six-Day War.

[5] On the night of March 6, 2008, a lone shooter from Jabel Mukaber in East Jerusalem, entered the yeshiva with a gun and began firing indiscriminately, murdering eight students and wounding 15 others.

The attack ended with the arrival of Yitzhak Dadon, a part-time student of the yeshiva, and David Shapira, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, who shot and killed the shooter.