Ahmad Tibi
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| Date of birth | 19 December 1958 |
| Place of birth | Tayibe, Israel |
| Knessets | 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1999 | Balad |
| 1999–2015 | Ta'al |
| 2015– | Joint List |
Ahmad Tibi (Arabic: أحمد الطيبي, Arabic pronunciation: [ˈ(ʔ)æħmæd (atˤ)ˈtˤiːbi], Hebrew: אחמד טיבי, sometimes spelled Ahmed Tibi; born 19 December 1958) is an Arab-Muslim Israeli politician and leader of the Arab Movement for Change (Ta'al), an Arab party in Israel. He serves as a member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) since 1999, and currently serves as one of ten Deputy Speakers of the Knesset, representing the Arab Israeli MK block. Tibi was acknowledged as a figure in the Israeli-Palestinian arena after serving as a political advisor to the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat (1993–1999). He describes himself as Arab-Palestinian in nationality, and Israeli in citizenship.
Tibi is also a trained physician and graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a gynecologist.
Tibi was born in Tayibe, Israel, a town about 16 km (10 mi) east of the Mediterranean coast north of Tel Aviv, in 1958. His father was born in Jaffa. His grandfather was born in Damascus, Syria where most of his relatives still live. One of his cousins is a very famous female author in Damascus.
Tibi studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with honors in 1983. He began an internship as a physician at Hadassah Hospital in 1984, but never finished, And that because he attack the security guard of the Hospital and harm his head Seriously. That same year met PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Tunis.
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