Samir al-Rifai ( ar, سمير الرفاعي; 30 January 1901 – 12 October 1965) was Jordanian politician. He served several terms as the 8th

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. He was born in

Safed Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevat ...

. Al-Rifai served under Kings Abdullah I,

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and

Hussein Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", " ...

: *

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from 1943 to 1944 *Prime Minister of the

Emirate of Transjordan The Emirate of Transjordan ( ar, إمارة شرق الأردن, Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, Emirate of East Jordan), officially known as the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921,

from 15 October 1944 to 19 May 1945 *Prime Minister of the Emirate of Transjordan from 19 May 1945 to 25 May 1946 *Prime Minister of the

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

from 4 December 1950 to 25 July 1951 *Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 8 January 1956 to 22 May 1956 *Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 18 May 1958 to 6 May 1959 *Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 27 March 1963 to 21 April 1963 * President of the Senate of Jordan from 10 July 1963 to 1 November 1965 He was the father of Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and the grandfather of Prime Minister Samir Rifai. He died in Amman, aged 64.

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