The "Torah MiTzion Kollel" program establishes centers for the study of Torah and promulgates the connection between Torah and Israel. The initiative for this program originated from the Beit Medrash of Yeshivat Har-Etzion, with the support of its Roshei Yeshiva - Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Rav Yehuda Amital zt"l.
This year's shlichim in Melbourne are all Har Etzion Hesder talmidim.
Participating in this year's Melbourne Kollel MiTzion Dinner, Rav Leibtag gave a shiur "Why was Eretz Yisrael not Mentioned in Asseret HaDibrot." At the local Bnei Akiva seminar, Rav Leibtag met with the madrichim, the majority of whom are also Har Etzion alumni.
See and hear more about the Melbourne Kollel:
The first Kollel in the U.S. A. was set up in Cleveland, Ohio, with Rabbi Binyamin Tabory as the first Rosh Kollel. At the same time, Har Etzion Alumnus Rabbi Jonathan Glass made a dream come true by establishing the Yeshiva of Cape Town, South Africa, also manned by Hesder students.
This venture has made great progress; It counts more than 25 Kollelim on all five continents. "School Based Kollelim" include Detroit, Greater Washington, Memphis, Cleveland, Chicago, Montreal and Melbourne. The "Community Beit Midrash Program" includes Atlanta, Manhattan, Phoenix, Boca Raton, Kansas City, Syracuse, Omaha, Moscow, Stockholm, London, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mexico City, Caracas and Montevideo. As of August this year, 2 new community kollels have opened - in Dayton and Baltimore. In addition, kollelim are run on six AmericanUniversity Campuses: Brandeis, Yale, Cornell and UCLA, as well as BrooklynCollege and University of Pennsylvania as of Summer 2002. For more information see the Torah MiTzion website.
Rav Menachem Leibtag recently visited the Torah MiTzion's Kollel in 
This year's shlichim in Melbourne are all Har Etzion Hesder talmidim.
