Raleb Majadele

Ghalib Mudschadala (Arabic غالب مجادلة Ghālib Mudschādala, DMG Galib Muǧadala, Hebrew ראלב מג ` אדלה Raleb Madschadale; born April 5, 1953 in Baqa al - Gharbiyye, Israel) is a businessman and politician of the Israeli Labor Party Avodah, which in January was appointed the first Muslim Arab minister in Israel 2007. He initially worked as a minister without portfolio and then from 21 March 2007 to 31 March 2009 as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport.

Life and work

Mudschadala comes from an Arab-Israeli village near the Green Line, and was from 28 June 2004 for the Labour Party ( Avoda ) member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The politically rather unknown Mudschadala worked previously as a parliamentarian and a member of the environmental and welfare committees. A stir he made in December 2006, when he sat by a small prayer house for disembarking Muslim passengers in new airport Terminal 3 of Ben- Gurion airport.

Defense Minister Amir Peretz nominated Mudschadala as successor to Ophir Pines - Paz, who in October 2006 in protest against the inclusion of the ultra-right party Jisra'el Beiteinu (Israel - our home ) had resigned in the government coalition. His candidacy for the office of Prime Minister post was quite controversial. The leader of the nationalist party, Avigdor Lieberman, voted as the only cabinet member to Mudschadala and threw Peretz claims to have acted out of purely partisan political considerations, since the approximately 400,000 eligible voters Israeli Arabs represent a serious voters layer. In the Israeli parliamentary elections in 2009, he missed due to his list place and the loss of Avoda the re-entry into the Knesset, with the swearing in of the new coalition government headed by the Likud on 31 March 2009, he is also not well represented as a minister in the government.

Mudschadala is married and has four children.