Tamir Granot is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and author and the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Orot Shaul, a hesder yeshiva located in southern Tel Aviv. He is also an expert on Jewish thought regarding the Holocaust.

Yeshivat Har Etzion, commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, in Israel in Gush Etzion. It is considered one of the leading institutions of advanced Torah study in the world and with a student body of roughly 480, it is one of the largest hesder yeshivot in the West Bank.