Amin-Salim Jarjora
{{Short description|Israeli Arab Christian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Amin-Salim Jarjora
| image = Amin Gargurah portrait.jpg
| office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset
| suboffice1 = Democratic List of Nazareth
| subterm1 = 1949–1951
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|10|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nazareth, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|08|20|1886|10|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = Nazareth, Israel
| citizenship = {{ubl
| {{flag|Ottoman Empire|size=23px}} (1886–1920)
| {{flag|Mandatory Palestine|name=Palestine|maritime|size=23px}} (1920–1948)
| {{flag|Israel|size=23px}} (1948–1975)
}}
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| profession = Politician, lawyer, teacher, soldier
| allegiance = {{flag|Ottoman Empire|size=23px}}
| branch = Ottoman Army
| serviceyears = 1914–1918
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| battles = World War I
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Amin-Salim Jarjora ({{langx|ar|أمين سليم جرجورة}}, {{langx|he|אָמִין־סָלִים גָ׳רְג׳וֹרַה}}{{ltr}}; 12 October 1886 – 20 August 1975) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Democratic List of Nazareth between 1949 and 1951.
Biography
Born in Nazareth to a Christian Arab family, Jarjora attended law school in Jerusalem.[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=345 Amin-Salim Jarjora: Particulars] Knesset website A teacher at the Russian School in his hometown, he served in the Ottoman Army during World War I. After the war he taught at Rashidiya school in Jerusalem between 1922 and 1926. He also worked as a lawyer in Haifa and Nazareth.[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=345 Amin-Salim Jarjora: Public Activities] Knesset website
In the first Knesset elections in 1949, Jarjora was placed second on the Democratic List of Nazareth party, which won two seats. He was placed second on the Agriculture and Development list for the 1951 elections, losing his seat as the party won only one seat.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202039/http://en.idi.org.il/media/512542/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%AA%202-%20%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%AA%20%D7%94%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%97.pdf Agriculture and Development list] Israel Democracy Institute
He became mayor of Nazareth in 1954, a position he held until 1959.
References
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External links
- {{MKlink|id=345}}
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{{s-bef|before=Yousef Muhammad Ali Fahoum}}
{{s-ttl|title=Mayor of Nazareth|years=1954–1959}}
{{s-aft|after=Seif el-Din el-Zoubi}}
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Category:20th-century Israeli lawyers
Category:Arab members of the Knesset
Category:Arab people from Ottoman Palestine
Category:Arab people in Mandatory Palestine
Category:Democratic List of Nazareth politicians
Category:Israeli schoolteachers
Category:Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951)