Ahmed A-Dahar

Ahmed A-Dahar was born in 1906 in Nazareth

Ahmed Kemal A-Dahar was born in Nazareth in 1906, during the Ottoman era. He was the second child in a family of 6 siblings. He was a descendant of Daher al-Omar, who ruled the Galilee in the 18th century.

During the British Mandate he was a member of the National Defense Committee, a national body that worked under the Arab Higher Committee. He served on the Nazareth city council for about 30 years. He helped raise donations in the country and abroad to build the Al-Salam Mosque in the city's eastern neighborhood, which had no mosque.

In 1959 he was elected to the Knesset on the Progress and Development list. He kept his seat in the 1961 elections and lost it in the 1965 elections. He died on 6 February 1984.