Yousef Jabareen

Yousef Jabareen was born in 1972 in Umm al-Fahm

Jabareen was born in Umm al-Fahm on 23 February 1972. He lives there and is married with 4 children.

He earned a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1995 and a master's in law from American University in Washington in 1997. He received a doctorate in law from Georgetown University in 2003. His field is human rights and minority rights.

From 1997 to 2000 he was legal director of the northern branch of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. In 2004 he joined the law faculty at the University of Haifa, and he also taught at Tel-Hai Academic College. He headed Dirasat, an Arab center for law and policy in Nazareth.

He entered the Knesset in 2015 on the Joint List and was reelected in April 2019, September 2019 and 2020. In July 2020 he became chair of the Knesset committee on children's rights, the first Arab member to lead it. He lost his seat in the 2021 election.

In 2018 he was barred from a lecture tour in the United States sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2021. In May 2026 he was chosen to lead the Hadash list, and he was elected to the 26th Knesset.