The story
Founded by Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht in 1954.1
Founded in 1954, Kerem BeYavneh was the first Yeshivat Hesder. The first Rosh Yeshiva of Kerem B'Yavneh was the renowned scholar Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht. Following Goldvicht's retirement, Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg succeeded his position, himself an alumnus of the yeshiva, and Rosh Kollel. In the summer zman of 5774, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Blachman was appointed to be the Associate Rosh Yeshiva to Rabbi Greenberg. In 5777, Rav Gavriel Saraf was appointed to be Rosh HaYeshiva along side Rav Aharon Friedman. The current Head of the Overseas Program is Rabbi David Zahtz.
Like all Yeshivot Hesder, Kerem B'Yavneh is a religious Zionist institution. It has an open outlook towards Western culture, both with faculty holding university degrees and students attending university.
Programs within the yeshiva include a Hesder track, a gap-year for overseas students, and a Kollel Rabbanut as well as a Kollel Ledayanut (a Kollel for training of religious court judges).
The yeshiva had an enrollment of 296 students in 2021, the 9th most attended Hesder Yeshiva in Israel, with students from Israel and from overseas, most of whom reside in dormitories on campus. Most overseas students come from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada, other countries are also represented.
From Wikipedia’s article on Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3