Yaqoub Farraj

Yaqoub Farraj (Arabic: يعقوب نقولا فراج; also Romanized Ya'cub or Yacoub Farraj) was a Palestinian political leader during the British colonial period.

[1] He was deputy mayor of Jerusalem during the 1930s[2] and succeeded Musa Kazem Pasha al-Huseini as head of the Palestine Executive Committee in 1934.

[1] He was described by historian Walid Khalidi as "doyen of the Palestinian Greek Orthodox community.

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