Amin-Salim Jarjora

Amin-Salim Jarjora (Arabic: أمين سليم جرجورة, Hebrew: אָמִין־סָלִים גָ׳רְג׳וֹרַה‎; 1886 – 20 August 1975) was an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Democratic List of Nazareth between 1949 and 1951.

Born in Nazareth to a Christian Arab family, Jarjora attended law school in Jerusalem.

[1] A teacher at the Russian School in his hometown, he served in the Ottoman Army during World War I.

After the war he became a lecturer, working at the El-Rashidia College in Jerusalem between 1922 and 1926.

[2] In the first Knesset elections in 1949, Jarjora was placed second on the Democratic List of Nazareth party, which won two seats.