Salah Tarif

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.

Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 3 February 1992 as a replacement for Ezer Weizman.

[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.