Said Nafa

Said Nafa was born in 1953 in Israel

Said Nafa was born in 1953 into a Druze family in Beit Jann. He joined the Communist Party of Israel at age 14.

He studied law at Tel Aviv University and graduated in 1983.

In 1989 he was elected to the Beit Jann local council for the Communist Party, and he later served as head of the council. He left the party in 1997 and joined Balad in 1999. In 2001 he launched the Free Druze initiative, which sought to end the conscription of Druze into the army.

He entered the Knesset on 24 April 2007, replacing party leader Azmi Bishara, and was reelected in 2009. In 2007 he visited Syria without a permit and met Talal Naji of the PFLP-GC. In February 2012 he took part in a rally in support of Bashar al-Assad.

He did not run in the 2013 elections. In April 2014 he was convicted of entering an enemy state and contact with a foreign agent, and in September 2014 he was sentenced to one year in prison. He lives in Beit Jann, is married and has 9 children.