Hanan Porat

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Hanan Porat

Hanan Porat (born Hanan Spitzer on 12 December 1943) is a former Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
for Tehiya

Tehiya

Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small Right wing politics political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992....
, the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

The National Religious Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel representing the Religious Zionism movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992....
, Tkuma and the National Union

National Union (Israel)

The National Union is a nationalist List of political parties in Israel in Israel. In the Israeli legislative election, 2009 the Union was an alliance of four parties: Moledet, Hatikva , Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, and former Tkuma members....
during two spells; 1981 to 1984 and 1988 to 1999.

t was born in Kfar Pines

Kfar Pines

Kfar Pines is a religious moshav in northern Israel. Located to the north-east of Hadera, adjacent to Pardes Hanna-Karkur and Ein Iron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council....
in 1943, during the Mandate era. In 1944, his family moved to Kfar Etzion

Kfar Etzion

Kfar Etzion is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....
. In early 1948, during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Palestine, Kfar Etzion was besieged and the children were evacuated to Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
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Hanan Porat (born Hanan Spitzer on 12 December 1943) is a former Israel

Israel

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
for Tehiya

Tehiya

Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small Right wing politics political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992....
, the National Religious Party

National Religious Party

National Union (Israel)

Biography

Porat was born in Kfar Pines

Kfar Pines

Kfar Etzion

Jerusalem

Kfar Etzion massacre

The Kfar Etzion massacre was an act committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel....
, his family settled in Kfar Pines. Porat studied at the Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva , founded in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1929, is the largest Religious Zionism youth movement in the world today. It is active worldwide, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries....
yeshiva high school, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh is a major yeshiva in Israel near the city of Ashdod and adjacent to Kvutzat Yavne....
and the Mercaz HaRav

Mercaz haRav

Mercaz HaRav , also known as Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav, is a Hardal yeshiva situated in Jerusalem, Israel. The yeshiva was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and was initially headed by Rabbi Aharon Bronstein, the Ilui of Tebrig....
talmudic college, and was ordained as a rabbi

Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
. He worked as a religious teacher at several yeshivas.

He served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
during the Six-Day War

Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
and was among the troops that captured the Temple Mount

Temple Mount

The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
. He later said that the Israeli victory should have become a national holiday. After the Six-Day War

Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
he helped establish the Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
settlement bloc in the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
. He convinced Prime Minister Levi Eshkol

Levi Eshkol

served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a myocardial infarction in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office....
to grant permission to settle in Gush Etzion. He was badly wounded in the Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel....
of 1973 on the bank of the Suez canal

Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is a canal in Egypt. Opened in November 1869, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa or carrying goods overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea....
. He recovered and was amongst the founders of Gush Emunim

Gush Emunim

Gush Emunim was an Israeli political movement. The movement sprang out of the conquests of the Six-Day War in 1967, though it was not formally established as an organization until 1974, in the wake of the Yom Kippur War....
movement, which founded over 100 Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s. In 1975 he led the founding of Elon Moreh

Elon Moreh

Elon Moreh , is an Israeli settlement located in the Samarian Hills of the West Bank northeast of Shechem/Nablus on the slopes of Mount Kabir ridge....
, the first Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

West Bank

Sebastia

Sebastia can refer to:* Sebastia: Sivas, Turkey is the provincial capital of Sivas Province in Turkey. Sivas first appears in history as Seabaste...
.

In the 1981 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections in Israel for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment , Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%....
he was voted into the Knesset on the Tehiya list. He resigned on 7 March 1984, towards the end of the Knesset term, and was replaced by Zvi Shiloah. After the evacuation of Yamit

Yamit

Yamit was an Israeli settlement. It was home to about 2,500 people in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula that was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War, until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty....
in 1982, he announced his intention to build new settlements in parts of the Land of Israel

Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
still not in Israeli hands. In 1995, he convinced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin

was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
not to hand over Rachel's Tomb

Rachel's Tomb

Rachel's Tomb , is the traditional gravesite of the Biblical Matriarch Rachel and is widely considered the third holiest site in Judaism. It is located in the central West Bank on the outskirts of Bethlehem....
to the Palestinian Authority. He tried to repeat that in 2008. Prior to Israel's disengagement from Gaza, he instructed youngsters in Neve Dekalim

Neve Dekalim

Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement Village in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip. It was founded in 1983 after the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, on sand dunes that were previously uninhabited....
in Gush Katif

Gush Katif

Gush Katif was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were forcefully evicted from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan....
to disrupt evacuation forces.

In 1988 he returned to the Knesset, this time as a member of the National Religious Party. He was re-elected in 1992

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June, 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party , though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the Election threshold and thus effectively wasting votes for the right....
and 1996

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel alongside the first ever Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996 on 29 May, 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%....
. In 1996 he was appointed the NRP's parliamentary group chairman, but on 4 March 1999 he and Zvi Hendel left the party to establish a new faction, initially named Emunim, later re-named Tkuma.

Prior to the 1999 elections Tkuma formed an alliance with other small right-wing parties named the National Union. Porat was placed third on the Union's list, and was re-elected again. However, he resigned from the Knesset on 20 October that year, and was replaced by Hendel.

Published works

Et Ahi Anohi Mevakesh (first published as Et Anat Anohi Mevakesh)
Me'at Min Ha'or

Hanan Porat

Biography

Published works

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