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Education
  
University of Haifa

Role
  
Politician

Name
  
Wasil Taha

2003–2009
  
Balad


Date of birth
  
(1952-04-24) 24 April 1952 (age 63)

Knessets
  
Israeli legislative election, 2006

Place of birth
  
Kafr Kanna, Israel

Wasil Taha (Arabic: واصل طه‎‎, Hebrew: וואסל טאהה‎‎, born 24 April 1952) is an Israeli-Arab politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Israeli Arab party, Balad.

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Biography

Born in Kafr Kanna in 1952, Taha studied Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa, receiving a BA.

He was first elected to the Knesset in the 2003 elections on Balad's list and retained his seat in the 2006 elections. He caused controversy in July 2006 by stating that the abduction of IDF troops by Palestinian militants was a legitimate form of resistance. In December 2008 he announced that he would not run in the 2009 elections.

Taha still lives in Kafr Kanna and is married with four children.

Quotes

  • "Progress for Israel's Arabs depends on changing the entire discriminatory approach of the government over the past 58 years, and not on the appointment of a minister or deputy minister," on the appointment of Raleb Majadele as Minister without Portfolio in January 2007, Israel's first Arab minister.

    • References

    Wasil Taha Wikipedia
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