Person · Lawyer and nationalist of Safad

Subhi al-Khadra

صبحي الخضراء

1895–1954

Born in Safad in 1895, he joined Emir Faisal’s forces in the First World War and was in their vanguard when they entered Damascus in 1918. Back in Palestine he used a post in the British police to smuggle arms for the Syrian revolt of 1925, qualified as a lawyer at the Jerusalem Law Classes in 1932, and served the Awqaf of Acre. When the Great Revolt was proclaimed in April 1936 the British arrested him and interned him at Sarafand and Awja al-Hafir. He died in Damascus on 4 July 1954.

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Subhi al-Khadra

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