Finkel staged one of the most dramatic moves in the history of yeshivos . In the 1920s he decided to create a branch of his yeshiva in the Land of Israel , together with the dean Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein , setting it up in Hebron and sending waves of hand-picked students there , culminating with his own permanent '' aliyah '' , " going up " , to the Holy Land two years before his passing . In the region of Palestine he founded his own institution in the town of Hebron called '' Knesses Yisroel '' - " Gathering of Israel " , which moved to Jerusalem following the massacre of Jews during the 1929 Palestine riots in which many of the yeshiva students perished . This yeshiva today , Yeshivas Chevron in Jerusalem , has about a thousand students and is one of the most prestigious Lithuanian yeshivos in Israel
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)