Abdel Rahman Zuabi ( ar, عبدالرحمن زعبي, he, עבד אל-רחמן זועבי; November 19, 1932 – September 12, 2014) (also Abd-er-Rahman Zoabi) was an

Israeli Arab The Arab citizens of Israel are the largest ethnic minority in the country. They comprise a hybrid community of Israeli citizens with a heritage of Palestinian citizenship, mixed religions (Muslim, Christian or Druze), bilingual in Arabic an ...

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. In 1999, he served as an

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justice.

Biography

Abdel Rahman Zuabi was born in

Sulam Sulam ( ar, سولم; he, סוּלַם) is an Arab citizens of Israel, Arab village in north-eastern Israel. Known in ancient times as ''Shunama'' and ''Shunem'', it is first mentioned in the Amarna Letters in the 14th century BCE. Archaeologica ...

, a village in northern Israel near

Afula Afula ( he, עפולה Arabic: العفولة) is a city in the Northern District of Israel, often known as the "Capital of the Valley" due to its strategic location in the Jezreel Valley. As of , the city had a population of . Afula's ancient ...

. He studied law at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics (which would later become the law faculty of

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

and completed his studies in 1958, becoming the first Arab to graduate from the institution. He was granted a license to practice law in 1960 and joined the law office of Moshe Amar. He worked as a lawyer in

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and

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

until 1978, when he was appointed a judge on the Nazareth District Court. He was a member of the Shamgar Commission, which investigated the 1994

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in 1994. In 1996, Zuabi was appointed deputy chief of the Nazareth District Court in 1996 and served in this position until 2002. On March 3, 1999, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel for a nine-month term, becoming the first Arab justice to serve on the court.Israeli Arab waited 20 years to join Supreme Court
/ref> After his term ended, he returned to the Nazareth District Court until his retirement.

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