Haneh Hadad

{{Short description|Israeli Arab police officer and politician (1919–2020)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Haneh Hadad (00360459).jpg

| caption = Hadad in 1995

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|4|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Jish, Palestine

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|10|5|1919|4|19|df=y}}

| death_place =

| office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset

| suboffice1 = Labor Party

| subterm1 = 1995–1996

| native_name = حنا حداد

| native_name_lang = ar

}}

Haneh Hadad ({{langx|ar|حنا حداد}}, {{langx|he|חנא חדד}}; 19 April 1919 – 5 October 2020) was an Israeli Arab police officer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1995 and 1996.

Biography

Born in Jish in April 1919, Hadad received a high school education, before joining the police force. He worked as a detective and became a Chief Superintendent and assistant to the Minister of Police.

In the 1981 Knesset elections he headed the Arab Brotherhood List, but it received only 0.4% of the vote and failed to cross the electoral threshold. In 1988 he became a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. He was on the Labor Party list for the 1992 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 5 July 1995 as a replacement for Avraham Burg,[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexbyknesset_eng.asp?knesset=13 Knesset Members in the Thirteenth Knesset] Knesset website and was made a Deputy Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1996 elections.

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