Yussuf Hamis

Yussuf Hamis was born in 1921 in Reineh

Yussuf Hamis was born in Reineh, near Nazareth, in 1921. He went to high school in Nazareth and then studied at the American University of Beirut.

He joined Mapam in 1949 and sat on the secretariat of its Haifa branch. He later became a member of the party's national central committee and secretariat.

He was tenth on the party list in the 1955 elections, when Mapam won 9 seats. He entered the Knesset in September 1955 in place of Yitzhak Yitzhaky, who had died, and was re-elected in 1959 and 1961. He lost his seat in the 1965 elections.

In 1966 he joined the actions committee of the Histadrut, and in 1977 he became a member of its central committee. He was deputy chairman of its Arab department, sat on the board of Beit Berl and was on the central committee of Hapoel. He died in 1986.