Wikipedia's first sentence called it “national-religious yeshiva in jerusalem”. Today it says “national-religious”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Main yeshiva building”. It now reads “Yeshiva in Jerusalem Main yeshiva building”.
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Mercaz HaRav ( , lit. center of The Rabbi (Rabbi Kook), more properly, Mercaz HaRav Kook ), is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem , Israel , founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook .1It has become synonymous with his teachings. It is the most prominent yeshiva in the religious Zionist world. It has trained the movement's leading rabbis as well as many yeshiva heads, city rabbis, and teachers in religious colleges and high schools. The school was central in shaping the evolution of religious Zionism. Founded in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighbourhood in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook , then chief Ashkenazi rabbi during the British Mandate, it is seen as the first yeshiva to be Zionist in spirit. Rabbi Kook called it "the central world yeshiva," located in Jerusalem to serve as a beacon of Torah to the rest of Israel and to the diaspora. Rav Kook brought Rav Avraham Borstein to serve as the Rosh Yeshiva with him, but died two years later. After Rav Kook's death in 1935, the was named Mercaz Harav after him. After his passing in 1951, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook , the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook took up his father's position. In 1982, after Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook died, Rabbi Avraham Shapira took the position and led the institution until his death in 2007. His son, Rabbi Yaakov Shapira shlit"a, was his successor. Today, the yeshiva has about 500 students, including 200 students in the yeshiva's kollel (post-graduate division). In its first decades the college had few students and at times it was not clear whether it would survive. The turning point came in the '50s, when graduates of Bnei Akiva religious schools and high-school yeshivas seeking higher religious education flocked to Mercaz Harav, the only Zionist yeshiva. The prominent Beni Akiva Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neria , a student of Rabbi Kook's, encouraged students to go to Mercaz Harav, which was headed from 1952 by Rabbi Abraham Kook's son, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, until his eventual death.2
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One of the yeshiva buildings Mercaz HaRav Kook ( ) (lit. "The Rav Kook Center") is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem , Israel , founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook . It has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Kook's teachings.Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at the Mercaz HaRav Kook."About the Yeshiva" (in Hebrew)."Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas" . haaretz .
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Main yeshiva building Mercaz HaRav (officially, , "The Center of Rabbi [Kook] - the Central Universal Yeshiva") is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem , founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook .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.Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at Mercaz HaRav. "About the Yeshiva" (in Hebrew). "Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas" . haaretz .
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Yeshiva in Jerusalem Main yeshiva building Mercaz HaRav (officially, , "The Center of Rabbi [Kook] - the Central Universal Yeshiva") is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem , founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook . 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. Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at Mercaz HaRav. "About the Yeshiva" (in Hebrew). "Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas" . haaretz .
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Yeshiva in Jerusalem Main yeshiva building Mercaz HaRav (officially, Hebrew : מרכז הרב - הישיבה המרכזית העולמית , "The Center of Rabbi [Kook] - the Central Universal Yeshiva") is a national-religious ( Hardal ) yeshiva in Jerusalem , founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook . 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. Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at Mercaz HaRav. "About the Yeshiva" (in Hebrew). "Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas" . haaretz .
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