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Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon (1954-) is an Israeli politician, a Member of the Knesset and chairman of the Israeli nationalist right-wing party the National Union. Elon is a ninth-generation Jerusalemite and has been residing for the last 20 years in Beit El, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. His father was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel and his brother, Rabbi Mordechai Elon, is a prominent figure in the Religious Zionist Movement. The Basic Laws of Israel are a key component of Israels uncodified constitution. The State of Israel has no formal constitution. ... The Jerusalem Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Israeli Knesset on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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History

Before becoming a Member of the Knesset he founded, along with Chanan Porat, the Talmudic College Beit Orot and became the first dean^[1][2]. In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...

In February 2006 Elon was diagnosed with throat cancer^[3]. Throat cancer is a common way of referring to some head and neck cancers, usually squamous cell carcinomas. ...

Knesset

Elon was first elected to the Knesset in 1996 as member of the right-wing Moledet party, which advocates voluntary transfer of Palestinian population from the Israeli-occupied territories, an ideology which has been widely denounced in Israel as racist. In 1999, the party allied with other right-wing parties to form the National Union party. Following the assassination of Moledet leader Rehavam Zeevi in 2001, Elon was elected to replace him as party chairman and as Tourism Minister. He consequently served two terms as Tourism Minister of Israel, between 2001-2002 and again between 2003-2004, both in Ariel Sharon's government. Moledet (Hebrew מולדת, literally homeland) is a small right-wing political party in Israel. ... Population transfer is a term referring to a policy by which a state, or international authority, forces the movement of a large group of people out of a region, most frequently on the basis of their ethnicity or religion. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... The Golan Heights plateau overlooking the site of the ancient city of Hippos The Israeli-occupied territories is one of a number of terms used to describe areas captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. ... 1. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... Rehavam Zeevi (רחבעם זאבי-גנדי) (June 20, 1926 - October 17, 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. ...   (Hebrew: , also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק) (born February 27, 1928) is a former Israeli politician and general. ...

Ideology

Elon is a keen supporter of the continuation of the Israeli settlement enterprise in the West Bank and return to Gush Katif, and does not recognize a Palestinian right for self determination in any part of the Land of Israel. As such, he rejects the efforts for establishing peace in the Middle East as viewed by the mainstream (see Road map for peace). Instead, he suggests an alternative proposal called The Right Road to Peace, centered on motivating the emigration of West Bank and Gaza Arabs, also known as the Elon Peace Plan^[4]. Homes alongside a sand dune in Neve Dekalim. ... Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Islam Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Mizrachi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ‎); is a member of a Non-Semetic group of people whose cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases... The Elon Peace Plan is a solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict proposed in 2002 by Rabbi Binyamin Elon, who was the Israeli tourism minister at the time he put forward his proposal. ...

During the 16th Knesset, Elon gained notoriety for his attempt to foil Ariel Sharon's plan to dismiss him from the cabinet^[5] for intending to vote against the Disengagement Plan^[6]. Elon went into hiding, claiming that if he did not receive his dismissal in person within 48 hours of the cabinet meeting, then he would still be able to vote. Ultimately his dismissal was deemed legal, and he was not allowed to vote in the meeting. Israels unilateral disengagement plan (termed in Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to...

Elon has been an advocate for "transfer" ^[7] as a solution for the demographic issues posed by the Arab population.

Additional Work

He is the author of God's Covenant with Israel: Establishing Biblical Boundaries in Today's World (2005).

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