(Video) Rav Hanan Porat Z”L

Love of the Land
04 October '11


Rav Chanan Porat Z"L, passed away today (6 Tishre) at age 67. An exceptional individual, who this year was one of three recipients awarded the 2011/5771 Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. Below, a brief biography, and the video which accompanied the presentation of this award.

Rav Chanan Porat
2011/5771 Moskowitz Prize for Zionism

Chanan Porat has been an inspiration to both young and old throughout his career – as an IDF paratrooper in the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, founder and leader of the Gush Emunim movement to resettle Yehuda, Shomron and Aza, a political figure, educator and chessed (charity) activist. His parents moved to the new Kibbutz of Kfar Etzion when Porat was six months old. During the 1948 War of Independence he was among the children of Kfar Etzion evacuated from the Kibbutz before it was subsequently destroyed by Arab attackers.



Porat grew up to be one of the leaders of the surviving children, leading them back 19 years later to reestablish the Jewish presence in Gush Etzion. Porat has been a model of taking an unfaltering ideological stand in order to affect the national agenda, from founding the first communities of Gush Etzion, to Sebastia with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and throughout historic Eretz Yisrael.

Porat served as member of the Israeli Knesset for many years, as a member of the Techiya party, the NRP and a founder of the National Union. After leaving the Knesset, Porat was among the founders and leaders of the “Orot” chessed network, and he continues his Torah based teaching to many.

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