Samir al-Rifai ( ar, سمير الرفاعي; 30 January 1901 – 12 October 1965) was Jordanian politician. He served several terms as the 8th
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
of
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
. He was born in
Safed
Safed (known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardi Hebrew, Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation, Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), i ...
.
Al-Rifai served under Kings
Abdullah I,
Talal and
Hussein
Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "h ...
:
*
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
from 1943 to 1944
*Prime Minister of the
Emirate of Transjordan
The Emirate of Transjordan ( ar, إمارة شرق الأردن, Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, Emirate of East Jordan), officially known as the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921, from 15 October 1944 to 19 May 1945
*Prime Minister of the Emirate of Transjordan from 19 May 1945 to 25 May 1946
*Prime Minister of the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; Romanization of Arabic, tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; Romanization of Arabic, tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levan ...
from 4 December 1950 to 25 July 1951
*Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 8 January 1956 to 22 May 1956
*Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 18 May 1958 to 6 May 1959
*Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 27 March 1963 to 21 April 1963
*
President of the Senate of Jordan from 10 July 1963 to 1 November 1965
He was the father of Prime Minister
Zaid al-Rifai
Zaid al-Rifai ( ar, زيد الرفاعي) (born 27 November 1936 in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian politician that served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Jordan from April 1984 to April 1989.
Biography
He served as Prime Minister of Jordan and ...
and the grandfather of Prime Minister
Samir Rifai
Samir Zaid al-Rifai ( ar, سمير زيد الرفاعي) (born 1 July 1966) is a Jordanian politician who was the 38th Prime Minister of Jordan from 14 December 2009 to 9 February 2011.
Early life and education
Al-Rifai hails from a prominent ...
.
He died in
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
, aged 64.
See also
*
List of prime ministers of Jordan
This is a list of Prime Minister of Jordan, prime ministers of Jordan since 1921.
List of officeholders
See also
*List of kings of Jordan
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Prime Ministers Of Jordan
Government of Jordan
Prime Ministers ...
References
External links
Prime Ministry of Jordan website
1901 births
1965 deaths
People from Safed
Prime Ministers of Jordan
Jordanian people of Palestinian descent
Government ministers of Jordan
Education ministers of Jordan
Interior ministers of Jordan
Finance ministers of Jordan
Economy ministers of Jordan
Justice ministers of Jordan
Foreign ministers of Jordan
Defence ministers of Jordan
Deputy prime ministers of Jordan
American University of Beirut alumni
Members of the Senate of Jordan
Presidents of the Senate of Jordan
20th-century economists
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