Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh is a major yeshiva in Israel near the city of Ashdod and adjacent to the Kibbutz Kvutzat Yavne. This article is about the Jewish educational system. ... Hebrew אשדוד Founded in 1956 Government City (from 1968) District South Population 200,600 (2005) Jurisdiction 60,000 dunams (60 km²) Mayor Zvi Zilker Ashdod (Hebrew: ‎; Arabic: ‎, Isdud) is a city in the Southern District of Israel. ... Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים; gathering or together) is an Israeli collective intentional community. ... Kibbutz Yavneh (or Kvutzat Yavneh), is a kibbutz located on the coastal plain between Ashdod and Ashkelon in Israel. ...

Enrollment and structure

The Yeshiva has an enrollment of around 450 students, including students from Israel and overseas, who reside in dormitories on campus. Overseas students come mainly from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, but also from a diverse group of countries including Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Brazil, Australia and South Africa. Unusual among Israeli yeshivot enrolling foreign students, the Israeli and foreign students are highly integrated in dormitory arrangements and classes. Helping with integration is the high proportion of Israeli students who are themselves immigrants (or children of immigrants) from the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Yeshiva has a Kollel as well as a Kollel Ledayanut, or Kollel for training of Dayanin. A kollel (Hebrew: כולל; a gathering/collection [of scholars] is an institute for advanced studies of the Talmud and of rabbinic literature for post-graduate Jewish adults, essentially a yeshiva which pays married men a regular monthly stipend or annual salary (and/or provides housing and meals) to study Judaisms... A Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) is a religious Jewish scholar who is an expert in Jewish law. ...

Hesder yeshiva

The first Yeshivat Hesder, Kerem BeYavneh was founded in 1953. The first Rosh Yeshiva of Kerem B'Yavneh was the renowned scholar Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht. Following his retirement, Goldvicht was succeeded by Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg, himself an alumnus of the yeshiva. Hesder (in Hebrew: arrangement; or Yeshivat Hesder ישיבת הסדר) is a yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with (a shortened) military service in the Israel Defense Forces within a national religious framework. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl. ... Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht was the founding Rosh yeshiva of the major Israeli Hesder yeshiva Yeshivat Kerem BYavneh, commonly known as KBY. A world renowned scholar and teacher, Rabbi Goldvicht was also the author of Asufat Maarachot, a collection of thoughts on Torah and...

Notable alumni

The Yeshiva has produced many notable alumni in the course of the last 54 years, counting among its graduates many prominent rabbis and communal leaders both in Israel and abroad. Examples include Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, and a number of the staff at RIETS studied at the yeshiva, including Rabbis Mordechai Willig, Dovid Willig, Boruch Simon, Zvi Sobolofsky, Meir Goldvicht, Benjamin G. Kelsen, and Yonason Sacks. Knesset member Yitzchak Levy, retired pol Hanan Porat, and Uri Bin Nun, current director the Israel Electric Corporation,and Rav Shlomo Gemara, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Or Chaim. Rabbi Yona Metzger Yona Metzger (יונה מצגר) (born 1953) is the current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. ... Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary or RIETS (Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan) is the most important yeshiva component of Yeshiva University. ... Rabbi Mordechai Willig Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig (born April 25, 1947 in New York) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY. His formal title is the . ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Rabbi Yonason Sacks Rabbi Yonason Sacks is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY. He is also the acting rabbi at the Agudas Yisroel of Passaic Pack, in Passaic, NJ. He currently resides with his wife and children in Passaic, NJ. He is the author of... The modern Knesset building, Israels parliament, in Jerusalem Though similar-sounding, Beit Knesset (בית כנסת) literally means House of Assembly, and refers to a synagogue. ... Uri Bin Nun is the current CEO of the Israel Electric Corporation. ... Israel Electric Corporation (abbreviation: IEC) is the main supplier of electrical power in Israel. ... Yeshivat Or Chaim boys school ישיבת אור חיים and Ulpanat Orot girls school אולפנת אורות are two high schools sharing the same philosophy. ...

Controversy

The Yeshiva is also the alma mater of Yitzchak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir who studied at the school for five years.^[1]Following the assassination one of the Yeshiva's lecturers David Kav was questioned alongside Nahum Rabinovitch of Ma'ale Adumim Yeshiva and Shmuel Dvir of Har Etzion Yeshiva on the suspicion that they had sanctioned the killing.^[2][3][4][5] Kav was released unconditionally after questioning and ultimately no charges were pressed against any of the Rabbis. Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין) (March 1, 1922–November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and military general. ... Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Yeshivat Har Etzion Yeshivat Har Etzion, commonly known as Gush, is a Hesder Yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, a settlement in Gush Etzion near Jerusalem, Israel. ...

Citations

External links

• Kerem B'Yavneh Official Website
• World Zionist Organization's Kerem B'Yavneh page
• NCSY's Kerem B'Yavneh page