Waleed Taha
Waleed Taha | |
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| File:Walid Taha (SHL 8811).jpg Taha in 2021 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2019–2021 | Joint List |
| 2021– | United Arab List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 September 1968 Kafr Qasim, Israel |
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Waleed Yusuf Taha (Arabic: وليد طه, Hebrew: וָולְיַד יוֹסֵף טָאהָא; born 7 September 1968) is an Israeli Arab politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Kafr Qasim, Israel, Taha gained a bachelor's degree in political science from the Open University of Israel, a bachelor's degree in history at Tel Aviv University and a master's degree in political science at Tel Aviv University. He worked in education in Ramla as the principal of Al Huda School.
A member of the Islamic Movement, Taha became the chair of the organisation's Kafr Qasim branch. He was elected to the city council, becoming director of education. He ran in the United Arab List primary elections prior to the 2015 Knesset elections, attempting to gain second place on the party's list, but lost to Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya by one vote. However, he was placed sixth on the Joint List (an alliance of the four main Arab parties) for the September 2019 Knesset elections,[1] and was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won thirteen seats.
The United Arab List ran independently in the 2021 elections, with Taha re-elected as the party won four seats. In July 2020 Taha said that same-sex relationships were unnatural and that the “phenomenon of gays is almost nonexistent in Arab society."[2] In September 2021 Taha was picked as the chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee.[3] He was re-elected again in the 2022 elections as the second-placed candidate on the party's list.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Joint List Central Elections Committee
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Waleed Taha on the Knesset website
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Arab members of the Knesset
- Israeli educators
- Israeli Muslims
- Joint List politicians
- Members of the 22nd Knesset (2019–2020)
- Members of the 23rd Knesset (2020–2021)
- Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022)
- Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–)
- Open University of Israel alumni
- People from Kafr Qasim
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- United Arab List politicians