Majalli Wahabi

Madschalli Wahbi (Arabic مجلي وهبه, DMG Maǧallī Wahbi, Hebrew מגלי והבה; born February 12, 1954 in Bait Dschan, Israel) is a politician in Israel and a member of the Knesset for the constituency Bait Dschan. He is an Arab and belongs to the faith of the Druze Community.

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Islam history and closed the program with a BA from. He also studied modern Middle East history at Haifa University and earned an MA there.

Wahbi served in the Israeli army. He began in a Druze infantry battalion and then pursued a career as an officer. He participated in the 1982 Lebanon war and later Wahbi was deputy commander of a unit on the Golan Heights. As a staff officer in Northern Command, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Wahbi had for the first time in 1981 the then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon made ​​him the 1996 - now as Minister of Infrastructure - made ​​it his personal ambassador for Israel's Arab neighbors Egypt and Jordan. In 1998, he was also a political advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1999 he moved to the post of Director General at the Ministry of Regional Cooperation and remained until 2002 in this post.

In the election in 2003 to the 16th Knesset, he was elected for his home constituency as MP for Likud to parliament and was after the split from the Likud, a founding member of the Kadima party. In 2005 Wahbi was first Secretary of State in the Office of the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and after the reshuffle as of 20 June 2005 at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. In the election for the 17th Knesset in 2006, he was re-elected in his constituency. Since then, he has been deputy speaker of the Knesset.

After the Israeli President Moshe Katsav on charges brought against him for raping his duties was initially rest, after the Israeli Constitution of the President of the Parliament was acting President of Israel. During a trip abroad the then incumbent Dalia Itzik Wahbi was from February 27, 2007 for a few days the current President of Israel, and thus the first non-Jewish head of state of a Jewish state since the death of Herod in 4 BC

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