Chanan Porat z"l

Between 1981 and 1984, I worked with Chanan three days a week while he was a Member of Knesset for Techiya.  I had worked with him earlier, from 1977, after returning from abroad and becoming part of the Gush Emunim information team as well as involved with other frameworks including Nekuda, the monthly journal of the Yesha Council, and the Midrasha Leumit.

He could quote long lines of Uri Tzvi Greenberg's poetry as well as Talmudic disputes, Halachic literature and chapter of Tanakh.

Here he on the left is at Sebastia 1975, I think:

On the far right in Menachem Begin and next to him, Yehuda Etzion, Zevulon Hammer and Yehuda Ben-Meir, two NRP MKs.

I was present at his 60th birthday party which was an amazing experience, one of learning and even awe.

May his memory be for a blessing.

More pictures here.

Oh, and Ethan Bronner gets it wrong (maybe depending either on Haaretz or Wikipedia in English) - Chanan and Rachel have 11 children (not 4) and 20 grandchildren (not several).

I have been given to understand that it will be corrected.

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And it has been corrected:

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