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Mahmud Al-Nashaf

Mahmud Al-Nashaf was an Israeli Arab politician who served in the Knesset for Agriculture and Development from 1959 to 1961.

1906 to 1979Founding Agriculture and DevelopmentMembership in the Fourth KnessetHeading the Tayibe local council

Died: 10 November 1979, Israel
Occupation: politician
Party: Agriculture and Development

Mahmud Al-Nashaf was born in 1906 in Taibe

Mahmud Al-Nashaf was born in Tayibe in 1906, during the Ottoman era.

He won a seat on the Tayibe local council on an independent list. He later became head of the council.

Before the elections of 3 November 1959, he founded the Agriculture and Development list and led it. The list won 1 seat, and he entered the Knesset on 30 November 1959. He sat on the Knesset Committee and the Education and Culture Committee.

His party did not run in the early elections of 1961, after the founding of Progress and Development split its support. He then backed Cooperation and Development, led by Jabr Moade, his former number 2. He died on 10 November 1979.