Mercaz HaRav Kook (lit. "The Rav Kook Center") is a national-religiousyeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. It has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Kook's teachings. Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at the Mercaz HaRav Kook.