The purchase of the land that was to become Beit Orot was arranged in 1990 by Hanan Porat, an Israeli politician, and financed by Irving Moskowitz, an American philanthropist.
Hanan Porat | Hanan Kattan | Hanan Ashrawi | Hanan al-Shaykh |
The new party was strongly affiliated with the extra-parliamentary movement of Gush Emunim, and included prominent members of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza such as Hanan Porat and Elyakim Haetzni.