Amin-Salim Jarjora | |
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Date of birth | 1886 |
Place of birth | Nazareth, Ottoman Empire |
Date of death | 20 August 1975 |
Knessets | 1 |
Party | Democratic List of Nazareth |
Amin-Salim Jarjora (Hebrew: אמין-סלים ג'רג'ורה, born 1886, died 20 August 1975) was an Israeli Arab politician who headed the Democratic List of Nazareth party, for whom he served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1951.
Born in Nazareth, Jarjora attended law school in Jerusalem. A teacher at the Russian School in his hometown, he served in the Ottoman Army during World War I. After the war he became a lecturer, working at the El-Rashidia College in Jerusalem between 1922 and 1926. He also worked as a lawyer in Haifa and Nazareth.
In the first Knesset elections in 1949, Jarjora headed the Democratic List of Nazareth party, which won two seats. Although he lost his seat in the 1951 elections, he became mayor of Nazareth in 1954, a position he held until 1960.