Zvi Hendel

Zvi Hendel, 2011.

Zvi Hendel ( Hebrew צבי הנדל; Born October 16, 1949 in Transylvania , Romania ) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Tkuma of the National Union in 1996 and 2009.

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Early years

Hendel came to Israel at the age of ten. He later worked as an instructor in the Gadna for the Israel Defense Forces . In the Yom Kippur War he was drafted as a reservist and served with the Sajeret , the Israeli special unit. In 1977 he moved to Ganei Tal , a settlement in the former Israeli settlement block Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip .

Political career

In the early 1990s he was elected to the board of directors of the Hof Aza regional council and in 1996 he was first elected to the Knesset as a member of the National Religious Party . At the end of his term of office he left the party together with Chanan Porat and founded the "Emunim" faction, which was later renamed Tkuma (Hebrew for reawakening). In the 2003 election , the party won seven seats and became part of Ariel Sharon's coalition. Tensions arose within the coalition prior to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip , as Tkuma sharply criticized Sharon's plan to give up all settlements in the Gaza Strip, which was captured during the Six Day War . In addition, Hendel himself lived in a settlement in the Gaza Strip and would have been forced to give up his own house if he had withdrawn. When the plan became a reality and the Israeli army withdrew militarily from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, there was a final break and Hendel's party left the government. He and his family also had to vacate his house, the processing of his experiences during and after giving up his home was recorded in the documentation "Katif" and "Katif Achron".

Private life

Hendel is married and has four children. Today he lives in Yad Binyamin .

Web links

• Zvi Hendel on mfa.gov.il
• Zvi Hendel on knesset.gov.il

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knesset rejects proposal requiring voter loyalty to state Haaretz, October 18, 2006