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Ahmad Sa'd

Ahmad Sa'd was an Israeli Arab economist, journalist and politician who served as a Hadash member of the Knesset from 1996 to 1999.

1945 to 2010Hadash member of the KnessetEditing the newspaper Al-IttihadDirecting the Emile Touma Institute

Born: 25 November 1945, Israel
Died: 20 April 2010, Israel
Occupation: economist, politician, journalist, writer
Party: Hadash
Education: Saint Petersburg State University

Ahmad Sa'd was born in 1945 in Israel

Sa'd was born in 1945 in the village of Al-Birwa. In 1948 his family was expelled from the village.

He studied economics at the University of Leningrad and earned a PhD.

He directed the Emile Touma Institute for Social and Political Research in Haifa. He sat on the secretariat of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and on the bureaus of Hadash and Maki. He wrote 9 books on economics and on Arabs in Israel.

In 1996 he was elected to the 14th Knesset on the Hadash-Balad list. When Balad's members left the joint faction, he stayed with Hadash, and he served on the Finance Committee and the House Committee.

From 1999 he was editor of the newspaper Al-Ittihad. He held a symbolic 111th place on the Hadash list in the 18th Knesset election. He died after an illness on 20 April 2010.