Zvi Hendel
| Zvi Hendel | |
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| Date of birth | 16 October 1949 |
| Place of birth | Romania |
| Year of aliyah | 1959 |
| Knessets | 14, 15, 16, 17 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1996–1999 | National Religious Party |
| 1999 | Tkuma |
| 1999–2009 | National Union |
Zvi Hendel (Hebrew: צבי הנדל, born 16 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Tkuma faction of the National Union between 1996 and 2009.
Born in Transylvania in Romania, Hendel made aliyah in 1959 and in his military service he served as a Gadna instructor. In his reserve duty he served as part of a reconnaissance unit in the Israeli Artillery Corps and took part in the Yom Kippur War.
In 1977, he moved with his family to the Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal, part of the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip.
In the early 1990s, Hendel was elected to the head of the Hof Aza Regional Council, and was first elected to the 14th Knesset in 1996 as a National Religious Party representative. Towards the end of his term, he left the party along with Hanan Porat and formed the "Emunim" faction, which soon after changed its name to Tkuma. As part the Tkuma party, he joined the National Union list, and was elected to the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Knessets.
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