Haneh Hadad

Haneh Hadad (Arabic: حنا حداد, Hebrew: 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.

Haneh Hadad
حنا حداد
Hadad in 1995
Faction represented in the Knesset
1995–1996	Labor Party
Personal details
Born	(1919-04-19)19 April 1919 Jish, Palestine
Died	5 October 2020(2020-10-05) (aged 101)

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,^[1] and was made a Deputy Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1996 elections.