Hanan Porat (born Hanan Spitzer) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator, military veteran, activist, and politician. Born in Kfar Pines, Mandatory Palestine, his family relocated to Kfar Etzion in 1944. During the 1948 Arab riots, the settlement was besieged, and children including Porat were evacuated to Jerusalem; following the Kfar Etzion massacre, the family returned to Kfar Pines. He attended Bnei Akiva yeshiva high school, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, and Mercaz HaRav talmudic college, where he was ordained as a rabbi. Porat worked as a religious teacher at several yeshivas. He served in the 55th Paratroopers Brigade during the Six-Day War, participating in the capture of the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem, and was badly wounded in the Yom Kippur War (1973) on the Suez Canal bank. A key co-founder of the Gush Emunim movement, which established over 100 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, Porat played a pivotal role in re-establishing the Gush Etzion bloc after the Six-Day War, convincing Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to grant permission. He personally re-established Kfar Etzion and co-founded Yeshivat Har Etzion (with Yoel Bin-Nun, headed by Yehuda Amital and Aharon Lichtenstein) and Alon Shevut. Porat also led the founding of Elon Moreh in 1975, the first West Bank settlement in Sebastia. Politically, he served as a Knesset member for Tehiya (1981-1984, resigning on March 7, 1984), the National Religious Party (1988-1999, re-elected in 1992 and 1996, serving as parliamentary group chairman in 1996), co-founded Tkuma on March 4, 1999 (leading it from 1998-1999 before resigning on October 20, 1999), and joined the National Union in 1999. Known for his staunch opposition to territorial withdrawals, Porat announced new settlements after the 1982 Yamit evacuation, convinced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin against handing Rachel's Tomb to Palestinians in 1995, and instructed Neve Dekalim youth to disrupt evacuation forces prior to the 2005 Gaza disengagement. He died of cancer on October 4, 2011, in Kfar Etzion, West Bank, survived by his wife, ten children, and 20 grandchildren.