Mr. Moshe Moskovics
An Israeli educator and public activist, one of the founders of the yeshiva, one of the founders of the Jewish community in Gush Etzion after the Six Day War, one of the founders of Machon Tzomet. On Jerusalem Day 2004, was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. "for over sixty years of involvement, commitment and leadership in the fields of education, society and settlement; for his personal part in establishing localities and educational, educational and Torah institutions throughout the country; on the vision of a renewed settlement in Gush Etzion, after the Six Day War and the fulfillment of the vision, the founding of the Gush settlements, the Har Etzion Yeshiva and the city of Efrat."