Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia ( ar, حماد أبو ربيعة, he, חמאד אבו-רביעה; born 1929, died 12 January 1981) was a Bedouin

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i politician and a member of the

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Biography

Abu Rabia was born and grew up in the

Negev The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its sout ...

, where he attended elementary school. He attended high school in

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. At the age of 18 he became sheikh of his tribe and took interest in fostering its education. Abu Rabia was first elected to the Knesset in

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on the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers, becoming the first Bedouin to serve in the Knesset. In 1974 the party joined the

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, but broke away again in 1976. The following year it merged into the original United Arab List. He was re-elected in the 1977 elections, and became a member of the Committee for Public Services. The United Arab List had won a single seat, which Abu Rabia and

Jabr Muadi Sheikh Jabr Muadi ( ar, جبر داهش معدي; he, ג'בר מועדי, born 1 April 1919, died 19 May 2009) was an Israeli Druze politician who served as a member of the Knesset for seven different parties between 1951 and 1981. Biography B ...

had agreed to rotate. However, Abu Rabia refused to vacate his seat, with a court ruling that the agreement was invalid.Anxiety attack
Haaretz International, 1 April 2005 On 12 January 1981 Abu Rabia was assassinated outside a hotel in Jerusalem by Muadi's sons. Despite the family links to the killing, Muadi replaced Abu Rabia in the Knesset.

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