Aryeh Eldad

Arieh Eldad ( born May 1, 1950 in Tel Aviv, Hebrew אריה אלדד ) is an Israeli physician and politician, 2003-2013 Member of the Knesset for the secular right-wing party Hatikva, which belongs to the National Union, was. On 13 November 2012, he founded, together with the Kahanists Michael Ben-Ari, the right-wing party Otzma LeJisra'el.

Biography

Eldad was born in 1950 in Tel Aviv. He is married and has five children. His father, Israel Eldad, was a prominent Israeli intellectuals and formerly a leader of the underground organization Lehi.

He lives in Kfar Adumim settlement of the Israeli and Brigadier General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF ).

Medical career

Eldad is a professor and head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. He studied medicine at the University of Tel Aviv, where he received his doctorate. He worked for 25 years as a senior medical officer and was a senior commander in the medical corps of the IDF and reached the rank of fact Aluf ( Brigadier General ).

Political career

Eldad was first elected on the list of National Union in the Knesset in 2003. Before the set in August 2005 implementation of the unilateral disengagement plan, which includes the withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank, Eldad was the only deputy who called for non-violent civil disobedience as a tactic in dealing with the government. Eldad was added in the few hundred kilometers between the community now cleared Sat Just to the north of the West Bank after Newe Dekalim to draw attention to the resistance to the Israeli disengagement plan.

In November 2007, he announced the formation of a new secular party the right of the political spectrum called Hatikva. Finally, the party took as a fraction of the National Union of the 2009 elections, in part, with Eldad on the third list position of the alliance.

In 2008, he filed a motion in the Knesset, thus the Arab residents of Hebron should evacuate the city in order to " protect the Jews of Hebron ", the proposal was rejected.

Eldad 's proposal of 2009, which provides, to give the Palestinians of the West Bank, the Jordanian citizenship, called formal protest by the Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh after themselves.

On November 13, 2012 Eldad founded with Michael Ben- Ari, the right-wing party Otzma LeJisra'el.

Political positions

Eldad is revisionist Zionist and supporter of the ideas of the Zionist Zeev Jabotinsky writer. Eldad advocates the right of Jews to be allowed to live in any part of Eretz Israel, so also within the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and disclaims any duty of Israeli sovereignty in favor of the PLO. So he turns to the west of the Jordan against the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state and designated the opportunity to be a disaster. The creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank would, it is believed Eldad, lead to a Hamas - operated center of terror. Furthermore, he doubts that there will ever be peace between the State of Israel and the Arabs.

During the visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Lebanon, he said: