Shachiv Shnaan

Shachiv Shnaan was born in 1961 in Hurfeish

Shnaan is a member of the Druze community. He was born and grew up in Hurfeish, in the Galilee.

He served in the IDF as a fighter in the Herev Battalion. He then studied general studies, Middle East studies and pre-law at Tel Aviv University. From 1989 to 1995 he worked in Hurfeish as a teacher and acting principal of the local secondary school.

He was active in the Histadrut and advised Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Saleh Tarif. From 1997 to 2001 he was a senior advisor to the minister for minorities affairs in the Prime Minister's Office, and later held posts in the Northern District of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare. In 2005 Minister of Internal Affairs Ophir Pines-Paz named him his senior advisor.

He was 20th on the Labor list in 2006, in the slot reserved for a Druze candidate, and entered the Knesset in 2008 after Efraim Sneh resigned. He lost his seat in 2009, joined Independence, and returned to the Knesset in 2012 in place of Matan Vilnai. He left in 2013 when Independence did not run in the elections.

Shnaan lives in Hurfeish, is married and has 5 children. His son Kamil, a border policeman, was killed in an attack on the Temple Mount in 2017. In 2018 he joined a Druze delegation that presented its opposition to the Nationality law to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.