Person · Politician; chairman of Hadash

Mohammad Barakeh

محمد بركة

born 1955

Born in Shefa-Amr on 25 July 1955 to a family from the destroyed village of Saffuriyya, he studied mathematics at Tel Aviv University, where he chaired the Arab Student Committee, and co-founded the General Union of Arab University Students. A member of the politburo of the Israeli Communist Party and coordinator of the Committee for the Defence of Arab Land, he became secretary-general of Hadash in 1992 and its chairman in 1999, and was elected to the Knesset in 1999, 2003 and 2006.

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document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs

Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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