Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi

Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi (English: Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea) was established in 1987 by then-member of Knesset Rabbi Meir Kahane, with much funding from American supporters,^{[citation needed]} at a temporary campus in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood.^{[citation needed]} In the summer of 1989 the yeshiva moved to its permanent location at 11 Shmarya Street in the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.^{[citation needed]} His stated goal was to produce Jewish leaders capable of acting and reacting Jewishly to the problems and challenges facing the State of Israel and the Jewish people.^{[citation needed]} Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer, the chief rabbi of Mitzpeh Yericho is the acting Rosh Yeshiva. Some of his writings can be found here. Rabbi Avraham Toledano was Mashgiach Ruchani. Rabbi David Bar Hayim taught talmud there.^{[citation needed]} MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari was also an active part of the yeshiva.^{[citation needed]}

The yeshiva's program had an emphasis the study of Tanakh and its traditional commentaries and Midrash as well as Talmud, which is common in most yeshivot.

In 1991, following the assassination of Kahane, division raised between the yeshiva administration and a large part of the student body as to who was to take charge of the institution. The group of student wished to appoint the Rabbi's son Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane as role of Rosh Yeshiva while members of the administration felt that he was still too young at the age of 23.

As result of the disagreement, Binyamin Kahane formed his own yeshiva with the same name at a new location in Kfar Tapuach. This yeshiva in Kfar Tapuach at times was also known as the Rabbi Meir Kahane Yeshiva, Yeshivat HaRav Meir and the Kfar Tapuach Yeshiva. Both yeshivot continued parallel until the murder of Binyamin in 2001. The yeshiva is still in use today and is located in a tent on the Tapuach West hilltop.

Notable Students

• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
• Netanel Ozeri
• David Ha'ivri
• Mike Guzofsky
• Michael Ben-Ari
• Lenny Goldberg, 1987-1990

See also

• Kahanism
• Kach and Kahane Chai
• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
• Kfar Tapuach