Doctor Yousef Taysir Jabareen is an Israeli Arab academic and politician.
Education
Jabareen studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an Bachelor of Laws in 1995. He studied for an Master of Laws at the Washington College of Law at the American University in Washington, District of Columbia, graduating in 1997, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2003.
Career
He stopped teaching at Tel Aviv University in 2009, and became a faculty member at Tel-Hai Academic College. He also heads the Dirasat Arab Centre for Law and Policy in Nazareth, and was legal director at the northern branch of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel between 1997 and 2000.
Membership
He lectured at the Washington College of Law between 2002 and 2003, and at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland in 2003, before becoming a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University in 2004. A member of Hadash, prior to the 2015 elections he was placed tenth on the Joint List list, an alliance of Hadash, Balad, the Islamic Movement, the United Arab List and Ta"al.