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Hamad Amar

Hamad Amar is an Israeli Druze politician and lawyer who has served as a Knesset member for Yisrael Beiteinu and as a minister in the Finance Ministry from 2021 to 2022.

born 1964Yisrael Beiteinu Knesset memberMinister in the Finance MinistryDruze and Circassian empowerment programFounding a Druze youth movement

Born: 5 November 1964, Shefa-Amr
Occupation: politician, lawyer, advocate
Party: Israel Our Home
Education: Bar-Ilan University

Hamad Amar was born in 1964 in Shefa-Amr

Hamad Amar was born in Shefa-Amr on 5 November 1964. He served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1982 to 1986.

He earned a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Zefat Academic College and studied law at the Academic Center for Law and Science. He holds a fifth degree black belt in Shotokan karate and founded the Martial Arts Association in Israel and a Druze youth movement.

He worked as an assistant to Avigdor Lieberman when Lieberman was Minister of National Infrastructure. He was elected to the Shefa-Amr council in 1998 and served until 2003. In 2009 he entered the Knesset on the Yisrael Beiteinu list.

He served as a deputy speaker of the Knesset. He lost his seat in the April 2019 elections and returned in September 2019. In 2018 he petitioned the Supreme Court against a proposed change to the citizenship law.

In June 2021 he became a minister in the Finance Ministry and resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law. He led a Druze and Circassian empowerment program that received 3 billion NIS in the November 2021 budget. He returned to the Knesset in 2022 and coordinated a visit of Syrian Druze to Israel in March 2025.