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Amin-Salim Jarjora

Amin-Salim Jarjora was an Israeli Arab politician and lawyer who sat in the first Knesset for the Democratic List of Nazareth and later served as mayor of Nazareth.

1886 to 1975Member of the first KnessetMayor of NazarethDemocratic List of Nazareth

Born: 12 October 1886, Nazareth
Died: 20 August 1975, Nazareth
Occupation: politician, lawyer, teacher, poet
Party: Democratic List of Nazareth
Education: Institute of Law in palestine
Wars: World War I

Amin-Salim Jarjora was born in 1886 in Nazareth

Jarjora was born in 1886 in Nazareth to a Christian Arab family. He studied at a law school in Jerusalem.

He taught at the Russian School in Nazareth and served in the Ottoman Army during World War I. From 1922 to 1926 he taught at the Rashidiya school in Jerusalem. He also practiced law in Haifa and Nazareth.

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset as second on the Democratic List of Nazareth. In the Knesset he spoke for the right of Palestinian refugees to return. For the 1951 elections he ran with the Agriculture and Development list and lost his seat.

In 1954 he led a Greek Orthodox list in the Nazareth council election, and Christian and Muslim council members chose him as mayor. In 1957 a coalition crisis over the city engineer nearly removed him. He left office in 1959 and died in 1975.