Birth Date: | 20 July 1963 |
Birth Place: | Beit Jann, Israel |
Suboffice1: | Zionist Union |
Subterm1: | 2017–2019 |
Suboffice2: | Labor Party |
Subterm2: | 2019 |
Saleh Saad (Arabic: صالح سعد, Hebrew: סאלח סעד; born 20 July 1963) is an Druze-Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and Labor Party between 2017 and 2019.
Saad was born in Beit Jann, and served in the Israeli security forces as a combatant for twelve years. He became a director of the Galilee Local Council Workers Division, and was also chairman of the Galilee branch of the Histadrut.[1] A member of the Labor Party, he was placed 25th on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections,[2] However, he failed to win a seat.
Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections, Saad was given the 26th place on the list of the Zionist Union (an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah),[3] a spot reserved for a Druze candidate.[1] Although the alliance won only 24 seats, Saad entered the Knesset on 3 October 2017 as a replacement for Manuel Trajtenberg,[4] who had retired from politics.[5] He was placed seventeenth on the Labor list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only six seats.