Ahmad Sa'd

Israeli politician (1945–2010)

1996–1999Hadash Personal detailsBorn(1945-11-25)November 25, 1945
Mandatory PalestineDiedApril 20, 2010(2010-04-20) (aged 64)

Ahmad Sa'd (Arabic: أحمد سعد, Hebrew: אחמד סעד; 25 November 1945 – 20 April 2010) was an Israeli Arab journalist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash between 1996 and 1999 and as editor of the Al-Ittihad newspaper.

Biography

Sa'd studied economics at the University of Leningrad, earning a PhD.^[1] He worked as a director of the Tumas Institute for Social and Political Research in Haifa, and was a member of the secretariat of the Supreme Committee monitoring the Arab population in Israel. He has written nine books on economics and Israeli Arabs, as well as writing for Al-Ittihad.^[2]

A member of the bureau of both Hadash and its Maki faction, Sa'd was elected to the Knesset on the Hadash-Balad list in 1996, and served on the Knesset finance committee.