Yeshivat Har Etzion

Yeshivat Har Etzion
ישיבת הר עציון‎
Yeshivat Har Etzion's main Bet Midrash building
EstablishedNovember 24, 1968 (November 24, 1968), 3 Kislev 5729
FounderRav Yehuda Amital, Rav Hanan Porat, Rav Yoel Bin-Nun, Moshe Moskowitz
Religious affiliation
Religious Zionism / Modern Orthodoxy
Students480
Address
HaYeshiva St 1
,
Alon Shvut
,
West Bank

31°39′28″N 35°07′24″E / 31.6577°N 35.1233°E / 31.6577; 35.1233
Websiteharetzion.org

Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; Hebrew: ישיבת הר עציון), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, 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.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Yeshiva University". yu.edu. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  2. ^ "Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis". Koren Publishers Jerusalem. Retrieved January 14, 2022.