Hanan Porat
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| Date of birth | 12 December 1943 |
| Place of birth | Kfar Pines, Mandatory Palestine |
| Date of death | 4 October 2011 (aged 67) |
| Place of death | Kfar Etzion, West Bank |
| Knessets | 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1981–1984 | Tehiya |
| 1988–1999 | National Religious Party |
| 1999 | Tkuma |
| 1999 | National Union |
Hanan Porat (Hebrew: חנן פורת, born Hanan Spitzer; 12 December 1943 – 4 October 2011) was an Israeli rabbi, educator and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya, the National Religious Party, Tkuma and the National Union between 1981 and 1984 and 1988 and 1999.
Porat was born in Kfar Pines in 1943, during the Mandate era. In 1944, his family moved to Kfar Etzion. In early 1948, during the Arab riots of 1948, Kfar Etzion was besieged and the children were evacuated to Jerusalem. Porat's father also moved there to arrange convoys. After the Kfar Etzion massacre, his family settled in Kfar Pines. Porat studied at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva high school, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and the Mercaz HaRav talmudic college, and was ordained as a rabbi. He worked as a religious teacher at several yeshivas.
He served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War and was among the troops that captured the Temple Mount. He later said that the Israeli victory should have become a national holiday. After the Six-Day War he helped re-establish the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. He convinced Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to grant permission to settle in Gush Etzion. He was badly wounded in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 on the bank of the Suez canal. He recovered and was amongst the founders of Gush Emunim movement, which founded over 100 Israeli settlements. In 1975 he led the founding of Elon Moreh, the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank, in Sebastia.
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