School network founded in 1920 by the Mizrachi Religious Zionist movement. Although it was originally called Torah va-Da'at, the school system was renamed in 1925 after one of the centers of Torah study in ancient Israel. The curriculum was religious and Zionist and both Judaic and secular studies were offered, including classes in prayer, Tanakh (Bible), Jewish law and history, as well as mathematics, sciences, geography, art, and music. Unlike the religious schools of Agudas Israel in which the language of instruction was Yiddish, the Mizrachi leaders of Yavneh accepted Hebrew as the desired language of everyday life. In 1938, the Yavneh system had 235 schools for all ages with over 23,000 students. (In some places the girls' schools counterpart was called "Havatselet").