Raleb Majadele
Raleb Majadele | |
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Minister of Science, Culture & Sport | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
2004–2009 | Labor Party |
2010–2013 | Labor Party |
2014–2015 | Labor Party |
Personal details | |
Born | Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Israel | 5 April 1953
Raleb Majadele (
Biography
Born in Baqa al-Gharbiyye, as a teenager Majadele was a member of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement,[1] becoming its secretary.
A businessman, he became secretary of the Regional Workers Council, and headed the Education and Sport department of the Histadrut trade union.
He joined the Labor Party, and was placed twentieth on the party's list for the 2003 Knesset elections. Although the party won only 19 seats, Majadele entered the Knesset on 28 June 2004 as a replacement for Avraham Burg,[2] who had resigned from the Knesset and public life and become a businessman. Majadele was re-elected in the 2006 elections.
On 10 January 2007, Labor leader
Although welcomed by many, Majadele's appointment was controversial among several groups of politicians.
For the 2009 elections he was placed fifteenth on the Labor list,[8] but lost his seat as Labor were reduced to 13 representatives. However, he re-entered the Knesset on 13 April 2010 as a replacement for Yuli Tamir, who had resigned her seat. For the 2013 elections he was placed seventeenth on the party's list,[9] and lost his seat again as the Labor Party won only 15 seats. However, he re-entered the Knesset on 14 December 2014 to serve as a replacement for Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who resigned for health reasons after Danny Atar (who had been sixteenth on the party list) gave up the opportunity to take his place.[10] He did not contest the 2015 elections, losing his seat.
See also
References
- ^ Overall, the street is happy Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz
- ^ Knesset Members in the Sixteenth Knesset Knesset website
- ^ a b Yoav Stern (10 January 2007). "Labor MK Raleb Majadele to be appointed first Arab minister". Haaretz.
- ^ a b "First Arab joins Israeli cabinet". BBC. 28 January 2007.
- ^ "Majadele refuses to sing national anthem". Ynet News. 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2007-05-09.
I fail to understand how an enlightened, sane Jew allows himself to ask a Muslim person with a different language and culture, to sing an anthem that was written for Jews only.
- ^ "Erekat: Why is PM 'poking us in the eye' over Jewish Israel"[permanent dead link] The Jerusalem Post, 16 November 2007
- ^ a b Mazal Mualem; Gideon Alon; Yoav Stern (12 January 2007). "Lieberman calls on Peretz to quit over appointment of first Arab minister". Haaretz.
- ^ Detailed list of approved candidates: Labor Knesset website (in Hebrew)
- ^ Labor Party Central Elections Committee
- ^ Raleb Majadla Replaces Ben Eliezer in Knesset Israel National News, 14 December 2014
External links
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- Raleb Majadele on the Knesset website
- "Arab minister good for Israel" Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg, Ynetnews30 January 2007