Mercaz HaRav (officially, Hebrew: מרכז הרב - הישיבה המרכזית העולמית,[1] "The Center of Rabbi [Kook] - the Central Universal Yeshiva")[2] is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem, founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.[3][4] 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.[5] Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at Mercaz HaRav. [5]