Haneh Hadad ( ar, حنا حداد, he, חנא חדד; 19 April 1919 – 5 October 2020) was an

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police officer and politician who served as a member of the

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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 won 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

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. 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,Knesset Members in the Thirteenth Knesset
Knesset website and was made a Deputy

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. He lost his seat in the

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