Abdel Rahman Zuabi

Abdel Rahman Zuabi was born in 1932 in Sulam

Abdel Rahman Zuabi was born on November 19, 1932, in Sulam, a village near Afula in northern Israel. He came from the Muslim Zuabi family.

He studied law at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics and finished in 1958. He was the first Arab to graduate from the school.

He received his law license in 1960, joined the office of Moshe Amar, and practiced in Haifa and Nazareth. In 1978 he became a judge on the Nazareth District Court, and in 1996 its deputy chief. He sat on the Shamgar Commission, which investigated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

In March 1999 he was appointed to the Supreme Court for a temporary term of 9 months. He then returned to the Nazareth District Court and retired in 2002. As a judge, he is credited with the silent witness precedent and took a strict line on drug cases.

He served as deputy chair of the Abraham Fund Initiatives, which works for coexistence between Arabs and Jews. After retiring he worked in legal arbitration. He had 3 children and died on September 12, 2014.