Abdel Rahman Zuabi was born in Sulam , an Israeli Arab village in northern Israel near Afula . He studied law at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics ( which would later become the law faculty of Tel Aviv University and completed his studies in 1958 , becoming the first Arab to graduate from the institution . He was granted a license to practice law in 1960 and joined the law office of Moshe Amar . He worked as a lawyer in Haifa and Nazareth until 1978 , when he was appointed a judge on the Nazareth District Court . He was a member of the Shamgar Commission , which investigated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Abdel Rahman Zuabi