Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya

Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya was born in 1965 in Israel

Hajj Yahya was born in Tayibe in 1965. He studied civil engineering at the Technion.

He joined the Islamic Movement in 1981. He was mayor of Tayibe for about half a year in 1998 and again from 2005 to 2007. In June 2007, after years of financial crisis in the city, Interior Minister Roni Bar-On removed him and appointed a committee to run it, and his petition against the decision was dismissed.

In 2015 he won second place on the United Arab List and was placed sixth on the Joint List, which won 13 seats. In the Knesset he worked on construction site safety and in May 2017 he was named head of a subcommittee on the subject. He was reelected in April 2019 on a joint UAL and Balad list, but lost his place on the list before the elections to the 22nd Knesset.

He is married with four children and lives in Tayibe.