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Jamal Abdel Latif Saleh Al-Shoubaki (born in 1952 in Idhna) is a Palestinian politician and diplomat and a member of the Fatah movement. He was Minister of Local Government in the government of Mahmoud Abbas, and the first and second governments of Ahmed Qurei between 2003 and 2005. During Ahmed Qurei's first government, he received the portfolio of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
His life
Al-Shubaki was born in the town of Idna in the Hebron Governorate during the period of Jordanian administration of the West Bank to a Palestinian family who immigrated from the village of Beit Jibreen (destroyed during the 1948 war) in the Hebron District. He holds a bachelor's degree in geography from Beirut Arab University.
Al-Shubaki received 24,346 votes in the Palestinian general elections in 1996, and became a representative member of the Hebron Governorate district in the first Palestinian Legislative Council.
On March 30, 2003, he was appointed Minister of Local Government in the government of Mahmoud Abbas, which lasted until October 5, 2003. Al-Shoubaki continued his position as Minister of Local Government within the first government of Ahmed Qurei, and in the second government of Ahmed Qurei until February 24, 2005. He was Minister of Youth and Sports during the government of Ahmed Qurei The first.
On June 25, 2006, he presented his credentials as Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Saudi Arabia and continued in the position until 2013. Later, between 2014 and 2017, he was Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Egypt and its delegate to the Arab League. In 2009, the sixth Fatah conference was held in Bethlehem, and he won membership in the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which lasted until 2017.
On November 1, 2017, he was appointed Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Morocco, and on January 26, 2018, he presented his credentials as Ambassador of Palestine to the Moroccan King.
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