Mazen Ghnaim ( ar, مازن غنايم; he, מָאזֶן גְּנָאִים, born 30 November 1956)
Mako, 25 March 2021 is an
Israeli Arab politician who previously served as chairman of
Bnei Sakhnin football club. He was mayor of
Sakhnin from 2008 to 2018 and a member of the
Knesset for the
United Arab List from 2021 to 2022.
Biography
Ghnaim was born in
Sakhnin. He played for Hapoel Sakhnin football club until the age of 27. After the club merged with Maccabi Sakhnin to form
Bnei Sakhnin, he became the new club's chairman. A member of
Balad, Ghnaim was eighth on the party's list for the
2006 Knesset elections, but the party won only three seats. In 2008 he resigned as chairman of the football club in order to run for the mayoralty of Sakhnin in the
local elections. He was elected with 59% of the vote and remained mayor until the
2018 elections
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Ghnaim was placed sixth on the United Arab List–Balad list for the
April 2019 Knesset elections
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Central Elections Committee but the alliance won only four seats. He was given the third slot on the Balad list for the September 2019 elections, but after the party became part of the Joint List and he placed thirteenth on its list, he opted not to run.[ He subsequently negotiated with ]Meretz
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to join their list for the 2020 elections
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,[Israel's Left-wing Meretz Party Seeks to Run Second Arab Candidate on Slate]
Haaretz, 26 December 2019 but was not included in the joint Meretz– Labor– Gesher list. Prior to the 2021 elections
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he was placed second on the list of the United Arab List,[ and was elected to the Knesset as the party won four seats.
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References
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1956 births
Living people
Arab members of the Knesset
Balad (political party) politicians
Bnei Sakhnin F.C.
Israeli football chairmen and investors
Mayors of places in Israel
Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022)
People from Sakhnin
United Arab List politicians