Merkaz Hatorah (also known as Mercaz) is a prominent Lithuanian Charedi Talmudic yeshiva in the Talpiot section of Jerusalem. Founded by Rabbi Aryeh Rottman and Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth zt"l in 1970, it primarily caters to students from the English speaking diaspora. It is a prominent and well respected yeshiva, in Israel and the U.S.A.. Today it boasts of about 100 students in its scenic campus, containing both a yeshiva gedolah and a kollel and is led by Rabbi Dov Kreiswirth, son of the original founder and Rabbi Aryeh Rottman, the founder's primary disciple, while the Rosh kollel is Rabbi Pinchas Zelivansky, the son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth. The mashgiach is Rabbi Mordechai Swimmer, a disciple of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman zt"l and Rabbi Dovid Kronglass zt"l.

The first-year program possesses three tracks and narrows to two for its second and third year. Many students continue on to the Mirrer Yeshiva, Ner Yisrael of Baltimore and other prominent yeshivos upon their completion of studies in Mercaz Hatorah.

Faculty

• Rabbi Dov Kreiswirth
• Rabbi Aryeh Rottman
• Rabbi Pinchos Zelivansky
• Rabbi Yochonon Rudensky
• Rabbi Mordechai Swimmer
• Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt
• Rabbi Gedalia Elfenbein
• Rabbi Daniel Lipner
• Rabbi Aryeh Greenwald
• Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg
• Rabbi Tzvi Twersky
• Rabbi Yaakov Mendelsohn
• Rabbi Michoel Maimon
• Rabbi Yosef Katz
• Rabbi Chanina Geisler

Prominent Alumni

• Rabbi Yaakov Bronsteyn (director of Star-K Kashrus, West coast )
• Rabbi Nochum Reznick (maggid shiur, Mir Yeshiva, Jerusalem)
• Rabbi Eli Mansour (noted Sephardic lecturer)