The answer that you're looking for is "Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai."
However, there is a mistake in your question and its perceived answer. Rabbi Johanan did not found the Torah-academy in Yavneh. Rather, it had already existed, and he bolstered it with hundreds of additional disciples.
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Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai.
The Romans changed the name of the territory after a Jewish revolt, from Iudea (Judea) to Palaestina (Palestine) in order to discourage further insurrections.
The Roman empire.
No one, because in he first century there was no such place as Palestine. The area did not receive the name Palestina until after the second Jewish revolt. In the first century, what would eventually become Palestine was a combination of Judaea and Syria.
It was called British Mandate of Palestine or simply Palestine.
According to the Biblical narrative, the Israelites approached Palestine from the East (where Jordan is now). According to archaeology, the Israelites were endemic to the Judean Highlands of Palestine (in what is now the West Bank and central Israel).
Yeas, Palestine was in the Roman Empire. In fact it was the Romans who invented the name Palestine. After suppressing the Bar Kokhba revolt (132--135 CE) of the Jews, the emperor Hadrian persecuted Judaism and renamed the Roman province of Judea. He called it Syria Palaestina. The name Palaestina was derived from Philistine.
After the second Jewish revolt, Rome expelled the Jews from Jerusalem, enslaved many of the survivors of the rebellion, leveled Jerusalem and renamed it, and combined the former Roman provinces the region into a new land called Palestine. So, you could say that Rome created Palestine, or at least, they named it.
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"Around 920 B.C., according to the biblical account, Jeroboam led the revolt of the northern tribes, and established the Kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 11-14). "see link "History of Ancient Israel and Judah" below
An armed uprising, or revolt against an established civil or political authority; usually a derogatory term.
A forced labour camp was established there in 1940, and the notorious extermination camp began routine gasssings in May 1942. The death camp was dissolved after the revolt and breakout of 14 October 1943.
1917. The Russian Provisional Government was established in March 1917 within a few days of the abdication of the Tsar. It was supposed to be temporary and it was but not for the reason it had anticipated. The Communist government was established in October 1917.