History
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Brovender founded Yeshivat Hamivtar in Givat HaMivtar, more than thirty-years ago, intending to create a unique learning center with a dual emphasis on intellectual openness and the systematic teaching of Talmud and other texts. Rabbi Brovender had been teaching at Darche Noam and left with ten-students to found the new Yeshiva including Rabbi Dovid Fink and Professor Charles Manekin.
In 1985, Yeshivat Hamivtar became part of the network of educational institutions founded by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin called Ohr Torah Stone. At which point Rabbi Riskin became co-Rosh Yeshiva.
Although Yeshiva Hamivtar used to have a post-high school gap program, in 2001 it gave up its post high school program, so the Yeshiva can focus on the needs of the post-college students. Ohr Torah that same year created Yeshivat Torat Shraga which became its post high school program, led my Rabbis Brovender and Ebner. In the end of that year Rabbi Brovender returned fully to Yeshivat Hamivtar.
In early 2007, Rabbi Chaim Brovender left the yeshiva to focus on developing his organization for Jewish educational initiatives, Atid, and especially its latest project called WebYeshiva.
Rabbi Joel Zeff succeeded Rabbi Brovender as Rosh Yeshiva. During Zeff's three-year tenure educational and administrative changes were made that brought considerable expansion of the Yeshiva's enrollment and vibrancy.
In Elul 2010 Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig became the new Rosh Yeshiva. The new leadership of the Yeshiva is especially intent on actualizing the institution's great potential to serve the many students desirous of a serious yeshiva experience in a Modern Orthodox-Religious Zionist environment, as well as committed to Rabbi Riskin's dream of creating truly modern orthodox Rabbis.
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