Aryeh Eldad Prof . Aryeh Eldad , M . D . ( , born 1 May 1950 ) is an Israeli physician and politician , and a former member of the Knesset for National Union ( Israel ) and Otzma LeYisrael . Biography . Eldad was born in Tel Aviv in 1950 . As a child , he was a voice actor in radio plays for Israeli state radio . He is married with five children . His father , Israel Eldad , was a well known Israeli public thinker and formerly one of the leaders of the militant underground group Lehi . He is a resident of the Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim and is a Brigadier - General ( reserves ) in the Israel Defense Forces . Medical career . Eldad is a professor and head of the plastic surgery and burns unit at the Hadassah Medical Center hospital in Jerusalem . He studied medicine at Tel Aviv University , where he earned his doctorate . He served as the chief medical officer and was the senior commander of the Israeli Defense Forces medical corps for 25 years , and reached a rank of " Tat Aluf " ( Brigadier General ) . He is renowned worldwide for his treatment of burns and won the Evans Award from the American Burns Treatment Association . Political career . Eldad was first elected to the Knesset on the National Union list in 2003 , and chaired the Ethics Committee . Prior to the scheduled Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank in August 2005 , Eldad was the only member of parliament to call for non - violent civil disobedience as a tactic in the struggle against the government . Eldad even walked the few hundred kilometres between the now evacuated community of Sa - Nur ( in the northern West Bank ) to Neve Dekalim in order to attract attention to the opposition of the Withdrawal plan . In the February 2006 dismantlement of the Amona outpost Eldad was injured during the confrontation between demonstrators and police , as was his ally MK Effi Eitam . The event caused a storm of criticism on both sides , as interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused them of inciting the crowd to attack the police , while they accused Olmert and the police of reckless use of force . After being re - elected in 2006 , in August 2007 Eldad established and headed a 10 - member Homesh Knesset caucus met for the first time . The caucus ' mandate is to work to promote the re - establishment of Homesh - with the aim of eventually re - establishing all the settlements dismantled in 2005 . In November 2007 he announced the formation of a new secular right - wing party named Hatikva . Ultimately the party ran as a faction of the National Union in the 2009 elections , with Eldad in third place on the alliance ' s list . He retained his seat as the Union won four mandates . In 2008 after Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin submitted a bill to remove the Jewish settlers from Hebron , Eldad called the proposal " racist . " In protest , he submitted a " mirror image " bill to the Knesset proposing that Hebron ' s Arab residents be removed " in order to protect the Jews of Hebron " . Neither bill was adopted . Eldad ' s 2009 proposal that Palestinian Arabs be given Jordanian citizenship drew a formal protest from the Jordanian foreign minister . In 2012 Eldad and Michael Ben - Ari launched a new party , Otzma LeYisrael . However , the party failed to cross the 2 % threshold in the 2013 elections and Eldad subsequently lost his Knesset seat . Political beliefs . Eldad supports the right of Jews to live in any part of the Land of Israel and opposes any surrender of Israeli sovereignty to the PLO . Eldad opposes the creation of any Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan River and called its possibility a " disaster " . The creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank would lead , Eldad believes , to a Hamas - run center of terror within three days of Israeli transfer of the land . Furthermore , Eldad believes that the State of Israel will never have peace with the Arabs . On his Zionism , Eldad stated that " I belong to this part of the Jewish people that believes the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel . " In a university lecture , he questioned , " how did we [ the Jewish people ] become so distorted as to say the Arabs have a right to our land ? " On " occupation , " he posits that " the only occupation I know of is the Arab occupation of the Land of Israel in the seventh century . . . If I am an occupier in Hebron , I am an occupier in Tel Aviv . . . " The Balfour Declaration , the White Papers , the United Nations recognition of the State of Israel - all these , Eldad believes , are not the sources of the Jewish right to the Land of Israel , but " only recognition of our right . " On his political goals , Eldad has stated : " When I wake up in the morning , I divide the day into two parts . In the first part of the day , I try to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state . It is not a full - time job , so in the second part of the day , I try to prevent corruption . " In March 2010 , in response to David Miliband ' s statement that the Israeli cloning of British passports is " intolerable " , he commented : " I think the British are being hypocritical , and I do not wish to insult dogs here , since some dogs show true loyalty , [ but ] who gave the British the right to judge us on the war on terror ? " . The canine theme was taken up by a second MP , Michael Ben - Ari , who said : " Dogs are usually loyal , the British may be dogs , but they are not loyal to us . They seem to be loyal to the anti - Semitic establishment " . During Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ' s visit to Lebanon in October 2010 , Eldad stated : " History would have been different if in 1939 some Jewish soldier had succeeded in taking Hitler out . If Ahmadinejad can be in the crosshairs of an IDF rifle when he comes to throw rocks at us , he must not return home alive . " Aryeh Eldad supports legalizing the medical use of cannabis in Israel and has sponsored legislation to that effect .