Salah Tarif (Arabic: صالح طريف, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Ṭarīf, Hebrew: סאלח טריף; born 9 February 1954) is a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2006.
While studying for his BA at the University of Haifa, he served as deputy chairman of the student union.
[2] He retained his seat in the June 1992 elections, and in November 1995 was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs in Shimon Peres' government.
Tarif was re-elected in 1999 (in which Labor ran under the One Israel umbrella), and in 2001 was appointed a Minister without Portfolio in Ariel Sharon's national unity government, making him the first non-Jew to hold a full ministerial position.
In January 2006, he lost his appeal against conviction on bribery charges[4] He failed to win a seat in the 2006 Israeli legislative election.