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Arab Members Of The Knesset ...
There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ever since the first Knesset elections in 1949. The following is a list of the 100 past and present members. Some Israeli Druze dispute the label "Arab" and consider Druze to be a separate ethnic group. However, because they speak Arabic as their first language they are still included in this list. Current members () Past members () See also * List of Arab citizens of Israel References {{reflist External linksKnesset membersKnesset website Arab Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Citizens Of Israel
The Arab citizens of Israel form the country's largest ethnic minority. Their community mainly consists of former Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925, Mandatory Palestine citizens (and their descendants) who continued to inhabit the territory that was acknowledged as Israeli by the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Notions of identity among Israel's Arab citizens are complex, encompassing civic, religious, and ethnic components. Some sources report that the majority of Arabs in Israel prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel, while recent surveys indicate that most name "Israeli", "Israeli-Arab", or "Arab" as the most important components of their identity, reflecting a shift of "Israelization" among the community. In the wake of the 1948 Palestine war, the Israeli government Israeli citizenship law#Status of Palestinian Arabs, conferred Israeli citizenship upon all Palestinians who had 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, remained or were not expelled. However, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamad Amar
Hamad Amar (; ; born 5 November 1964) is an Israeli Druze politician who currently serves as a member of Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu since 2022, previously serving from 2009 to 2019, and again from 2019 to 2021. Amar also served as a Minister in the Finance Ministry from 2021 to 2022. Biography Hamed Amar was born in Shefa-Amr. He served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1982 to 1986. He earned a BA in social sciences from Zefat Academic College, and an LLB from the Academic Center for Law and Science. Amar lives in Shefa-Amr's al-Fuar neighbourhood, with his wife and three children. He has a fifth degree black belt in karate, and chairs the Martial Arts Association in Israel. Amar runs a Druze youth movement that had 12,000 members as of 2013. The group emphasizes Druze culture and heritage and distributes thousands of food packets a month to families in need. Political career He worked as an assistant to Avigdor Lieberman, while the latter was Minister of National Infras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iman Khatib-Yasin
Iman Khatib-Yassin (, ; born 23 October 1964) is an Israeli Arab social worker and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List. She was first elected to the Knesset in 2020 as a member of the Joint List, becoming the first woman from the United Arab List and the first hijab-wearing woman elected to the Knesset.Joint List candidate poised to become the first hijab-wearing MK The Times of Israel, 3 March 2020 Biography Born in Arraba in 1964, Khatib-Yassin studied for a bachelor's degree in social work at the |
Walid Al-Huashla (R H 3683)
Waleed Khalil Alhwashla (; ; born October 11, 1981) is an Arab Israeli politician who was elected to the Knesset for the United Arab List in the 2022 elections. Political career He was placed in the third slot of the electoral list of the United Arab List following primaries that were held in August 2022. See also * List of members of the twenty-fifth Knesset The members of the 25th Knesset were 2022 Israeli legislative election, elected on 1 November 2022 and sworn in on 15 November. Composition One Druze in Israel, Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new Lists_of_Knesset_members, MKs and three openly gay ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alhwashla, Waleed 1981 births Living people United Arab List politicians Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–) Arab politicians in Israel Arab members of the Knesset Islamic Movement in Israel politicians University of Haifa alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasir Hujeirat (R H 3858)
Yasir Mahmoud Hujeirat (; ; born December 19, 1965) is an Arab Israeli geneticist and politician who was elected to the Knesset for the United Arab List in the 2022 elections. Political career He was placed in the fifth slot of the electoral list of the United Arab List following primaries that were held in August 2022. See also * List of members of the twenty-fifth Knesset The members of the 25th Knesset were 2022 Israeli legislative election, elected on 1 November 2022 and sworn in on 15 November. Composition One Druze in Israel, Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new Lists_of_Knesset_members, MKs and three openly gay ... References External links * 1965 births Living people United Arab List politicians Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–) Arab politicians in Israel Arab members of the Knesset Islamic Movement in Israel politicians Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli geneticists {{DEFAULTSORT:Hujeirat, Yasir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadash
Hadash is a left-wing to far-left political coalition in Israel formed by the Israeli Communist Party and other leftist groups. History The party was formed on 15 March 1977 when the Rakah and Non-Partisans parliamentary group changed its name to Hadash in preparation for the 1977 elections. The non-partisans included some members of the Black Panthers (several others joined the Left Camp of Israel) and other left-wing non-communist groups. Within the Hadash movement, Rakah (which was renamed Maki, a Hebrew acronym for ''Israeli Communist Party'', in 1989) has retained its independent status. In its first electoral test, Hadash won five seats, an increase of one on Rakah's previous four. However, in the next elections in 1981 the party was reduced to four seats. It maintained its four seats in the 1984 elections, gaining another MK when Muhammed Wattad defected from Mapam in 1988. The 1988 election resulted in another four-seat haul, though the party lost a seat whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssef Atauna (ISH 9163)
Youssef Atauna (, ; born 26 October 1966) is an Israeli Arab politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Hadash. He previously served as a member for the Joint List between October 2017 and February 2018. Biography A member of Hadash, prior to the 2015 Knesset elections the four main Arab parties formed the Joint List alliance. Atauna was placed seventeenth on the alliance's list, missing out on a seat as the Joint List won 13 seats. Prior to the election the Joint List parties had made a rotation agreement, which required the last Ta'al MK to give up their seat for a United Arab List candidate and the final Hadash MK to give up their seat for the next Balad candidate. However, as Balad's Basel Ghattas had been jailed and the next Balad candidate ( Juma Azbarga) had already entered the Knesset. At the point at which the rotation was supposed to happen, the United Arab List's Ibrahim Hijazi resigned after only a month in the Knesset, with Atauana and the next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Israeli Legislative Election
Early legislative elections were held in Israel on 17 March 2015 to elect the 120 members of the List of members of the twentieth Knesset, twentieth Knesset. Disagreements within the Thirty-third government of Israel, governing coalition, particularly over the budget and a Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, "Jewish state" proposal, led to the dissolution of the government in December 2014. The Israeli Labor Party, Labor Party and Hatnuah formed a coalition, called Zionist Union, with the hope of defeating the Likud party, which had led the previous governing coalition along with Yisrael Beiteinu, Yesh Atid, The Jewish Home, and Hatnuah. The incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud, declared victory in the election, with Likud picking up the highest number of votes. President Reuven Rivlin granted Netanyahu an extension until 6 May 2015 to build a coalition when one had not been finalized in the first fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Israeli Legislative Election
Early legislative elections were held in Israel on 22 January 2013 to elect the 120 members of the nineteenth Knesset. Public debate over the Tal Law had nearly led to early elections in 2012, but they were aborted at the last moment after Kadima briefly joined the government. The elections were later called in early October 2012 after failure to agree on the budget for the 2013 fiscal year. The elections saw the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu alliance emerge as the largest faction in the Knesset, winning 31 of the 120 seats. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu formed the country's Thirty-third government of Israel, thirty-third government after establishing a coalition with Yesh Atid, the Jewish Home, and Hatnua, which between them held 68 seats. Background Following the 2009 Israeli legislative election, 2009 elections, in which right-wing and religious parties won the majority (65 out of 120, or 54%) of the seats, Leader of the Opposition (Israel), opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
