Yousef Jabareen
| Yousef Jabareen | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Date of birth | 23 February 1972 |
| Place of birth | Umm al-Fahm, Israel |
| Knessets | 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2015– | Joint List |
Dr Yousef Taysir Jabareen (Arabic: يوسف تيسير جبارين; Hebrew: יוסף תיסיר ג'בארין, born 23 February 1972) is an Israeli Arab academic and politician.
Biography
Jabareen studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB in 1995. He studied for an LLM at the Washington College of Law at the American University in Washington, DC, graduating in 1997, and earned a PhD at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2003.[1] He lectured at the Washington College of Law between 2002 and 2003, and at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland in 2003, before becoming a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University in 2004.[1] He stopped teaching at Tel Aviv University in 2009, and became a faculty member at Tel-Hai Academic College.[1] He also heads the Dirasat Arab Centre for Law and Policy in Nazareth, and was legal director at the northern branch of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel between 1997 and 2000.[1]
A member of Hadash, prior to the 2015 elections he was placed tenth on the Joint List list, an alliance of Hadash, Balad, the Islamic Movement, the United Arab List and Ta'al.[2] He was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 13 seats.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen CV Tel Hai Academic College
- ↑ Joint List list Central Elections Committee
- ↑ Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
External links
- Yousef Jabareen on the Knesset website