Yeshivat Har Etzion
ישיבת הר עציון | |
Yeshivat Har Etzion's main Bet Midrash building | |
| Established | November 24, 1968, 3 Kislev 5729 |
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| Founder | Rav Yehuda Amital, Rav Hanan Porat, Rav Yoel Bin-Nun, Moshe Moskowitz |
Religious affiliation | Religious Zionism / Modern Orthodoxy |
| Rosh Yeshiva | Mosheh Lichtenstein, Yaaqov Medan, Baruch Gigi |
| Students | 480 |
| Address | HaYeshiva St 1 , , 31°39′28″N 35°07′24″E / 31.6577°N 35.1233°E |
| Website | haretzion |
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, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. 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 the second largest hesder yeshiva in Israel.