Mohamed Nafa is a Druze Israel

Israel

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i politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash

Hadash

Hadash is a Jewish and Arab socialist front of organizations that runs for the Israeli parliament. It currently has four members in the 120-seat Knesset.-Background:...

 from 1990 until 1992.

Biography

Born in Beit Jann

Beit Jann

Beit Jann is a Druze village on Mt. Meron, in northern Israel. At 940 meters above sea level, Beit Jann is one of the highest inhabited locations in the country. In 2007, the population was 10,300. The mayor of Beit Jann is Youssef Qabalan.-History:...

 during the Mandate era, Nafa attended a high school in Rameh

Rameh

Rameh is a local council in the North District of Israel. It is entirely populated by Arabs, of whom around 51% are Christian, 29% Druze, and a further 20% Muslim...

. He went on to study Hebrew and Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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.

In 1965 he joined the youth movement of Maki, the Israeli communist party. In 1965 he became secretary-general of the Union of Communist Youth. He was on the Hadash list (an alliance of Maki and other left-wing groups) for the 1988 Knesset elections

Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November 1988. Voter turnout was 79.7%.-Results:1 Five members of the Likud left to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea; after two returned, the party was renamed the New Liberal Party...

, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 14 February 1990 as a replacement for the long-serving Tawfiq Ziad

Tawfiq Ziad

Tawfiq Ziad was a Palestinian politician well-known for his "poetry of protest".-Biography:Born in the Galilee, Ziad studied literature in Russia...

. He lost his seat in the 1992 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

. He served as Maki's secretary-general from 1993 until 2002, and again since 2007.

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