Education
In 1996 he graduated with a Bachelor in education, gaining a master"s degree in business and education administration the following year.
In 1996 he graduated with a Bachelor in education, gaining a master"s degree in business and education administration the following year.
After doing his national service between 1978 and 1981, Hasson worked as Director of Youth and Sports at a local council. The following year he briefly worked as a teacher in a high school in Daliyat al-Karmel and the prison system, before starting work at a law firm in Haifa. He left the firm in 1986 and became director of the Daliyat al-Karmel community centre.
In 1989 he became Deputy Mayor of the city, a position he held until 1998.
In 1997 he became a headteacher, before working as the Director of the Israeli branch of the University of Lincoln from 1998 until 2001. In 2002 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy. He was placed 35th on the Kadima list for the 2009 Knesset elections.
Placed eighth on the Kadima list for the 2013 elections, he lost his seat when the party was reduced to two MKs. However, two days later he joined the new Kulanu list for the 2015 elections, being placed twelfth on the party list.
Hasson resides in Daliyat al-Karmel and has five children.
Kadima, Likud, Kulanu.
Between 2003 and 2008 he served as mayor of Carmel City and a member of the Planning and Building Committee in Haifa. Since 2005 he been a member of the Committee for Changing the System of Government in Israel.