Efraim "Effi" (Fine) Eitam (Hebrew: אפרים "אפי" איתם‎, born 25 July 1952) is an Israeli politician and former military commander. A former leader of the National Religious Party, he later led a breakaway faction, Ahi, which merged into Likud in 2009. He served as a member of the Knesset between 2003 and 2009. He advocates expelling the vast majority of Israeli Arabs from Israel, calling them a "cancer" undermining the democratic state of Israel.