Yehoshua Porath

Yehoshua Porath

Yehoshua Porath ( _he. יהושע פורת) is an Israeli politician and an orientalist. In the 1992 election, he was the 13th name on the list of Meretz candidates to Knesset, but later he changed his political views and became a supporter of the right. He opposed the Oslo accords between PLO and Israel. In the Israeli legislative election, 1996 he participated in the campaign of the Likud party and supported its leader Benjamin Netanyahu as a candidate for Prime Minister .Porath is currently Professor Emeritus of Middle East History (formerly Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies),then Lecturer in the History of the Muslim Countries at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialized in the history of the Palestinian nationalist movement and related issues.


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