Abdallah El-Yafi
Abdullah Aref al - Aref el- Yafi or Jafi (Arabic: عبد الله عارف اليافي, born September 7, 1901 in Beirut, then Ottoman Empire, † November 4, 1986 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Lebanese lawyer and politician. Between 1938 and 1969, he was seven times prime minister of his country.
El- Yafi attended the Jesuit College at the Université Saint- Joseph in Beirut and received his doctorate in law at the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1926 he worked as a lawyer and as a journalist. In 1937 he was elected to the Parliament Beirut City, from October 1938 to September 1939 he was the first Prime Minister and Minister of Justice still formed by the French mandate authorities Government of Lebanon. Since 1943, again in Beirut's city council, el- Yafi 1944 was a member of the Lebanese delegation to the Preparatory Conference for the establishment of the Arab League, in 1945 he represented his country at the conference in San Francisco on which the UN was founded. From December 1946 to April 1947 he was again Minister of Justice.
From June 1951 to February 1952 was again Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior at the same time, in September 1952, he initially failed in the attempt to form a government again. In August 1953 he was Prime Minister for the fourth time (as well as Minister of the Interior, Defence, Information Minister and Minister of Finance) and stayed until September 1954 at the office, from which he at first "final" resigned. In March 1956 he was then appointed for the fifth time as head of government (as well as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Planning ), but resigned in November 1956, when President Camille Chamoun refused, during the Anglo-French- Israeli intervention in Egypt relations with France and Great Britain cancel.
Together with his two predecessors and successors Saeb Salam and Rashid Karami led el- Yafi the National Congress, in 1957 with Muslim dignitaries, Druze socialists, Lebanese Communists, Maronite Chamoun 's opponents, the Maronite Patriarch and the Shiite Speaker of Parliament to " Front of National association " against Chamoun together closed. The conflict with Chamoun led in 1958 to the Civil War and the U.S. intervention.
Until 1965, el- Yafi then pulled back from political life, but then resigned as Minister of Finance in Karami's cabinet. After Karami's resignation el- Yafi was appointed surprising in April 1966 for the sixth time as Prime Minister, Interior Minister, Minister of Information and Minister of Planning. Started with the promise to maintain a liberal economic policy, el- Yafi but failed in December 1966 to combat widespread corruption, which was also already Karami had failed. Nevertheless Karami followed him again as head of government by, and el- Yafi took over in the Cabinet until 1968, again the post of finance minister. A seventh and final time was el- Yafi in February 1968 Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior at the same time, Defense Minister, Minister of Information, Minister of Planning, Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of Education. But he was forced to resign final after an Israeli commando raid on the Beirut airport (December 28, 1968) in January 1969.