Zouheir Bahloul

Zouheir Bahloul was born in 1950 in Acre

Bahloul was born on 24 December 1950 in Haifa to a Muslim Arab family. His mother, also a journalist, was offered the job of running a Muslim orphanage in Acre, so the family moved there. He spent his childhood with the orphans in the home she ran.

In 1974 he joined the Israel Broadcasting Authority as a researcher. He later became a sports announcer and called soccer games on radio and television. He also worked as a journalist focused on the Arab sector and hosted Arabic current affairs and talk shows.

In 2005 he left the Broadcasting Authority for Telad and hosted a short-lived show. He then presented Arabic news for HOT and a program on Ashams Radio. In 2010 he published an encyclopedia of Israeli soccer with Rami Brosh and Yigal Biton.

Bahloul joined the Labor Party in December 2014 and won the minority slot in its primary, beating Raleb Majadele. He entered the Knesset in 2015 on the Zionist Union list. In October 2018 he resigned in protest against the Nation-State Basic Law.