Seif el-Din el-Zoubi

Seif el-Din el-Zoubi (; 1913 – 26 June 1986) was an Israeli Arab politician.

Biography El-Zoubi was born in 1913 in Nazareth, where he attended high school. During the British Mandate of Palestine, he was active in the Haganah and later received the Fighter of the State Decoration. During the 1948 Palestine war, he convinced the Zoubi family to throw their weight behind the Jewish side and not for Fawzi al-Qawuqji's Arab Liberation Army.

In 1949, he was elected to the Knesset as the leader of the Democratic List of Nazareth which was a bloc party of Mapai. During this time he was a member of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee.

El-Zoubi was re-elected in 1973. In 1974, Progress and Development merged into Alignment, before leaving it and forming the United Arab List. He was re-elected for a final time on the United Arab List slate in 1977, before resigning his seat on 3 April 1979. He died in 1986.

Controversy According to Israeli historian Ori Stendel, el-Zoubi used his ties with the Israeli establishment to compensate for the decline of his political power within the Zubia clan. Historian Hillel Cohen wrote that el-Zoubi was "upgraded" by Mapai in exchange for relinquishing national demands and legitimizing land confiscations. Yitzhak Laor described his conduct as tantamount to taking political bribery.

Publications Autobiography: ”Eyewitness” (, 1987)