Faras Hamdan

Faras Hamdan
Date of birth	1910
Place of birth	Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	29 November 1966
Knessets	2, 3
Faction represented in Knesset
1951–1959	Agriculture and Development

Faras Hamdan (Arabic: فارس حمدان‎‎; Hebrew: פארס חמדאן‎‎, born 1910, died 29 November 1966) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agriculture and Development between 1951 and 1959.

Hamdan was born in Baqa al-Gharbiyye during the Ottoman era. In 1944 he was elected head of local council of his village, where he later established a citrus confectionery factory.

In 1951 he was elected to the Knesset as head of the Agriculture and Development list, which was associated with the ruling Mapai party. The party joined David Ben-Gurion's government, but Hamdan did not receive a ministerial portfolio.

He was re-elected in 1955, and again joined the governing coalition. For the 1959 elections the party was headed by Mahmud A-Nashaf. It won only one seat and Hamdan lost his place in the Knesset.

He died in 1966.

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