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- Al-Aaraj, Alaadine
- Abdul Shafi, Haidar
- Abu-Halbiyeh, Ahmad
- Abou-Ras, Marwan
- Abu-Amro, Ziyad
- Abu-Meddien, Freih
- Sheikh Freih Abu Meddien
- Abu-Shanab, Ismail
- Awadallah, Anwar
- Bahr, Ahmad
- Bseiso, Atef
- Khalil Dadah
- Franji, Abdullah
- Habeeb, Sameh
- Haniyyeh Ismail
- Harb, Hazem
- Harb, Mohamed
- Al-Hayeh, Khalil
- Helles, Ahmad
- Hindi, Amin
- Hindi, Mohammed
- Al-Isawi, Osama
- Khudari, Jamal
- Al-Kidwa, M. Nasser
- El-Krunz, Sadi
- Majdalawi, Jamil
- Moghanni, Kamel
- Al-Nimnim, Mohammad
- Rustom, Rifat
- Shalah, Ramadan
- Shawwa, Azzam
- Shawwa, Rashad
- Shawwa, Rawya
- Shehadeh, Salah
- Shiqaqi, Fathi
- Siyam, Said
- Sourani, Raji
- El-Wazir, Khalil
- Yassin, Sheik Ahmad
- Zahar, Mahmoud
- Al-Zaza, Ziad
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Sheikh Freih Abu Meddien
Born in 1871; Sheikh of a tribe from Beersheba, Negev and Gaza area; took part in the Arab Revolt of 1916, was appointed as a member in the first Advisory Council by Herbert Samuel in October 1920. The Council consisted of eleven officials and ten non-officials (four Muslim, three Christian, and three Jewish); Sheikh Fraih was a member representing the south, and the others were; Ismail Husseini (Jerusalem), Dr. Habib Salim (Nablus, Christian), Michel Beiruti (Jaffa, Christian), Suleiman Nassif (Haifa, Christian) and Suleiman Abdel Razzak Tuqan (Nablus Muslim); Sheikh Freih was re-appointed to the second Advisory Council in May 1923, which had Eight Arab - Muslim, members: Ragheb Nashashibi, Aref Dajani, Ismail Husseini, Abdel Fattah Al-Saadi, Amin Abdul Hadi, Suleiman Abdel Razzak Tuqan, Mahmud Abu Khadra (mayor of Gaza). The two Christians were Suleiman Nassif and Anton Jalad (of Jaffa); In 1922 Sheikh Freih became mayor of Beersheva; In January 1929, he was nominated to a legislative Assembly established by the high commissioner sir John Chancellor. Other member were Musa Kazem Huseini, Ragheb Nashashibi, Aref Dajani (all of Jerusalem); Azem Said (mayor of Jaffa), Mahmoud Abu Khadra (mayor of Gaza), Suleiman Tuqan and Haj Shafi Abdul Hadi (both from Nablus), Mahmoud Al- Madi (Haifa), Tawfiq Fahum (Nazareth) and Yakoub Farraj & Moghannem Moghannem (both Christians); After the Nakba in 1948, he took refugee in Gaza. Died in 1955. |
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