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Kamel Abd al-Rahman Erekat (1906 - July 17, 1984) was a Jordanian politician and parliamentarian of Palestinian origin. He was the speaker of the Jordanian Parliament.
his upbringing
Kamel Abd al-Rahman Erekat was born in the village of Abu Dis near the city of Jerusalem in 1906. He had studied at Rawdat al-Maarif in Jerusalem, and received his secondary education in the city of Ramallah, where he finished high school at the Friends School in 1923. In 1926 he joined the British Palestinian Police and continued with it. Until 1941. Then he worked in the field of dairy products in Jerusalem.
He was appointed president of the Jericho Merchants Syndicate in 1942. He participated in the Palestinian resistance movement led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini in the thirties and forties of the twentieth century, and joined the Holy Jihad Army between the years 1947-1949, then he became the leader of the Palestinian Fatwa from 1945 to 1947.
He was elected as a deputy to the Jordanian Parliament in the fifties of the twentieth century (in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth Jordanian parliament), then deputy speaker of the parliament in 1962, then an elected speaker of the Jordanian parliament in the seventies of the twentieth century, and was appointed a member of the Jordanian Senate in 1962. 1964 to 1970.
Kamel Abdul Rahman Erekat died in Amman on July 17, 1984 AD, corresponding to Shawwal 19, 1404 AH, at the age of 83.
Achievements and Awards
Kamel Erekat received a number of decorations, including:
Palestine Star Medal, 1949.
The Jordanian Independence Medal, Second Class, in 1958.
Commodore rank from Greece, 1959.
Medal of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, rank of Knight, in 1960.
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