Mercaz HaRav 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 prominen

Yaakov Ariel is the former chief rabbi of the city of Ramat Gan, Israel, and a cofounder of Gush Emunim, an Israeli ultranationalist organization. Ariel served as a rosh yeshiva in the abandoned Israe