The shooting attack at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem in early 2008, in which eight young men were murdered, shocked and saddened Israelis and Jews around the world. Less than two years later, a project has been completed which intends to respond to the attacks by “dispelling darkness with light.”

The project is the work of tens of thousands of people – specifically, a group of more than 30,000 that gathered following the attack on the social networking site Facebook. The group decided to base its response in the philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitchak Hakohen Kook, the founder of the Mercaz Harav school.