Ghalib Mujadala
Ghalib Mujadala ( Arabic غالب مجادلة Ghālib Mujādala , DMG Ġālib Muǧādala , Hebrew ראלב מג`אדלה Raleb Madschadale ; * April 5, 1953 in Baqa al-Gharbiyye , Israel ) is a businessman and politician of the Israeli labor party Avoda , who was appointed the first Muslim-Arab minister in Israel in January 2007. He worked initially as Minister without Portfolio and then from March 21, 2007 to March 31, 2009 as Minister for Science, Culture and Sport.
Life
Mujadala comes from an Arab-Israeli village near the Green Line and was a member of the Knesset , the Israeli parliament, for the Labor Party ( Avoda ) on June 28, 2004 . The politically rather unknown mujadala previously worked as a parliamentarian and member of environmental and welfare committees. He caused a sensation in December 2006 when he installed a small house of prayer for departing Muslim passengers in the new airport terminal 3 of Ben Gurion Airport .
Defense Minister Amir Peretz nominated Mujadala to succeed Ophir Pines-Paz , who resigned in October 2006 in protest against the admission of the far-right Jisra'el Beitenu ( Israel - our home ) to the government coalition. His candidacy for the post of minister was quite controversial. The party chairman of the nationalist party, Awigdor Lieberman , was the only cabinet member to vote against Mujadala and accused Peretz of acting out of purely party-political considerations, since the approximately 400,000 Israeli Arabs eligible to vote represent a serious electorate. In the Israeli parliamentary elections in 2009 he failed to return to the Knesset due to his place on the list and the losses of Avoda, and with the swearing-in of the new government coalition led by Likud on March 31, 2009, he is no longer represented as a minister in the government.
Mujadala is married and has four children.
Web links
- Raleb Majadele. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed August 30, 2020 .
- Thorsten Schmitz: First Muslim in the Israeli cabinet , SZ , January 12, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Šenkyr: “The situation of the Israeli Arabs” , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 1998.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mujadala, Ghalib |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Majadele, Raleb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli businessman and politician (Avoda) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baqa al-Gharbiyye , Israel |