Saleh Saad ( ar, صالح سعد, he, סאלח סעד; born 20 July 1963) is an

Druze-Israeli Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis ( ar, الدروز الإسرائيليون; he, דְּרוּזִים יִשְׂרְאֵלִים) are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people livin ...

politician. He served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

for the

Zionist Union The Zionist Union ( he, הַמַחֲנֶה הַצִיּוֹנִי, translit. ''HaMaḥaneh HaẒiyoni'', lit. ''the Zionist Camp'') was a centre-left political alliance in Israel. It was established in December 2014 by the Israeli Labor Party a ...

and Labor Party between 2017 and 2019.

Biography

Saad was born in

Beit Jann Beit Jann ( ar, بيت جن; he, בֵּיתּ גַ'ן) is a Druze village on Mount Meron in northern Israel. At 940 meters above sea level, Beit Jann is one of the highest inhabited locations in the country. In it had a population of . Etym ...

, and served in the Israeli security forces as a combatant for twelve years. He became a director of the Galilee Local Council Workers Division, and was also chairman of the Galilee branch of the

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

.MK Trajtenberg resigns from the Knesset
Knesset, 1 October 2017 A member of the Labor Party, he was placed 25th on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections, However, he failed to win a seat. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections, Saad was given the 26th place on the list of the

(an alliance of Labor and

Hatnuah Hatnua ( he, הַתְּנוּעָה, lit=''The Movement'') was a liberal political party in Israel formed by former Israeli Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni to present an alternative to voters frustrated by the stalemate i ...

), a spot reserved for a Druze candidate. Although the alliance won only 24 seats, Saad entered the Knesset on 3 October 2017 as a replacement for

Manuel Trajtenberg Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg ( he, מנואל טרכטנברג born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist and chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. He was appointed by Israeli Prime Ministe ...

, who had retired from politics.Top Israeli economist quitting politics
The Jerusalem Post, 28 September 2017 He was placed seventeenth on the Labor list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only six seats.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saad, Saleh 1963 births Living people Druze members of the Knesset Israeli Druze people Israeli Labor Party politicians Israeli trade unionists Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) People from Beit Jann Zionist Union politicians