Zouheir Bahloul

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Zouheir Bahloul (Arabic: زهير بهلول, Hebrew: זוהיר בהלול; born 24 December 1950) is an Israeli Arab sports broadcaster, journalist and politician. He was born in Haifa and grew up in Acre after his mother, a journalist, moved there to run a Muslim orphanage. In 1974 he started as a researcher at the Israel Broadcasting Authority and later became a sports announcer on Channel 1. He also worked as a journalist to promote the Arab sector in Israel, hosting Arabic-language current events programs and talk shows in the 1990s. He is vegan and was married to Jamila until her death in 2010; they had three children.

In politics, Bahloul joined the Labor Party in December 2014. In January 2015 he won a minority slot in the party primaries and was placed 17th on the Zionist Union list for the 2015 Knesset elections. He said he would push to diversify education and improve Jewish–Arab dialogue. He was elected to the Knesset in March 2015 when Zionist Union won 24 seats. He resigned in October 2018 in protest of the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.