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|birth_place = [[Tayibe]], Israel<br />
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'''Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya''' ({{lang-ar|عبد الحكيم حاج يحيى}}, {{lang-he|עַבֵּד אַל־חַכִּים חַאג׳ יָחיָא}}; born 16 February 1965) is an [[Israeli Arab]] engineer and politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the [[United Arab List]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Hajj Yayha was born in [[Tayibe]],<ref name=K>[http://main.knesset.gov.il/mk/pages/MkPersonalDetails.aspx?MKID=923 Member of Knesset Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya] Knesset</ref> and studied civil engineering at the [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]]. He is married with four children and lives in Tayibe.<br />
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Hajj Yayha joined the [[Islamic Movement in Israel|Islamic Movement]] in 1981. He served as mayor of [[Tayibe]] for six months in 1998 and again from 2005 until 2007. In 2007 Interior Minister [[Roni Bar-On]] removed Hajj Yayha from office and replaced him with an appointed committee. Hajj Yayha filed a petition against the decision, but it was dismissed.<br />
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Prior to the [[2015 Israeli legislative election|2015 Knesset elections]] he was elected to second place on the United Arab List (UAL), the political wing of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement. With the party becoming part of the [[Joint List]], an alliance with [[Hadash]], [[Balad (political party)|Balad]] and [[Ta'al]], Hajj Yahya was placed sixth on the overall Joint List list.<ref>[http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=41&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Joint List list] Central Elections Committee</ref> He was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 13 seats.<ref>[http://bechirot20.gov.il/election/english/kneset20/Pages/results20_eng.aspx Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset] Central Elections Committee</ref> For the [[April 2019 Israeli legislative election|April 2019 elections]], the UAL ran a joint list with Balad, with Hajj Yahya as the second UAL candidate and third on the joint list. He was re-elected to the Knesset as the alliance won four seats.<br />
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