Haneh Hadad

Haneh Hadad 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, and was made a Deputy Speaker. He lost his seat in the 1996 elections.