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2020-10-17T05:21:49.026Z


Hanna Haddad deciphered his first murder in the 1940s, commanded the police stations in the north and later became an MK and even served as deputy speaker of the Knesset. He received the investigation into the murder of the female soldier that agitated the country, but after they did not accept his position in the affair, he chose to retire from the service. About a week and a half ago he died at the age of 101


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The investigator solved 22 murders, and was sure: In the case of Rachel Heller, the wrong man was imprisoned

Hanna Haddad deciphered his first murder in the 1940s, commanded the police stations in the north and later became an MK and even served as deputy speaker of the Knesset.

He received the investigation into the murder of the female soldier that agitated the country, but after they did not accept his position in the affair, he chose to retire from the service.

About a week and a half ago he died at the age of 101

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Hanna Haddad has been an outstanding investigator in the police force for about 40 years, and has solved 22 murders.

During his service in the police, he was also the Arab officer with the highest rank in the organization.



However, one case accompanied him for many years, even after he retired from the service.

Haddad was the commander of the first investigative team that investigated the murder of Rachel Heller, and throughout the years he questioned the conviction of Amos Burns, who was eventually released and even acquitted of mute acquittal.



A week ago, Haddad died at his home in Turan, Lower Galilee, at the age of 101.

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"A noble man."

Haddad (Reproduction photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

Haddad was born in 1919 in Gush Halav (Jish) in the Upper Galilee.

At the end of elementary school, his parents sent him to study at the Scottish College in Safed, where he studied mainly the upper class of the Christian population in the Galilee, but also Jewish students such as Shmuel Toledano from Tiberias, later MK and Prime Minister Adviser on Arab Affairs, and Shmuel Pearl, commander of the Hatch. To Safed, and Meir Meiber, the city commander in the War of Independence and later also the mayor.



Upon graduation, in 1937, he was hired by the Iraqi Oil Company (IPC), and married Saada, a native of Beirut, whose family lived in Haifa.

Over the years, the couple had seven sons and a daughter.

One of their children, Majed, was killed in a car accident in 1988.

Inspector of Her Majesty's Police.

Haddad (Reproduction photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

At the end of 1937, however, he took a step that changed the course of his life, when he was admitted to the Palestine-Israel Police Corps, the British Mandate Police. After training and serving in the Jaffa police, Haddad was asked at the end of 1942 to move and serve in Benghazi, Libya. Alamein battle remains to halt the Nazi army forces commanded by Rommel.



during the Civil service he solved a murder case, and found that two murderers were the woman's husband and his lover. it was the first murder investigation completed, and over the years many investigations were added.

The Arab officer of the highest rank

Two years later, Haddad returned to Israel, commanded a police station in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, and in 1947 received the rank of officer and became an inspector in Her Majesty the Police.



He was later transferred to Nazareth and served as a district investigating officer.

A few days before the city was occupied by the IDF, in July 1948, the family moved to Lebanon. He later told journalist Aryeh Dayan that he did not do so for fear of the Jews, "but because there was chaos in Nazareth at the time.

There was no rule in the country and in Nazareth, gangs raged that no one knew who they belonged to. "Because of his service as a police officer, Haddad acquired enemies - and he assumed that Lebanon would be safer. There he was appointed by the Red Cross and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. manage two camps of Palestinian refugees in Baalbek.



However, after two years transferred to him the message that he and his family could return to Israel and is also likely to be made to the police. they did so, and indeed Haddad was drafted into the Israel police, without a new rank, and assigned as commander of a police Bmr'r. Two years later, in 1952, he was appointed commander of the police station in Shefar'am, which in those years controlled a large area, up to Araba and Sakhnin in the east, except for two years when he was appointed commander of the police station in Majd al-Krum, Haddad commanded the Shefar'am station for many years. 1968.

"He managed to connect everyone and became a revered figure in the city."

Haddad

His son, Advocate Issam Haddad, described commanding the Shefar'am station as an unusually complex role. "It was commanding a large community with three religions (Muslims, Christians and Druze) on behalf of the police of a new, Jewish government," he said of the challenge of His father, who he said stood out for his talent. "He managed to connect everyone and became a revered figure in the city."



At that time there were not many Arab commanders in police stations, and an Arab officer was also a very rare thing. Every time Haddad was promoted it was mentioned in the media. The Minister of Police, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, gave him the rank of officer, and for years he was the most senior Arab officer, and at the end of his service he was discharged with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

An investigation that agitated the country.

Rachel Heller (Photo: Courtesy of the family)

As part of their unconventional life trajectory, the Haddads chose to move to a city whose residents were all Jews, and in 1963 settled in Kiryat Haim and lived there for 13 years, at a time when the connection between Jews and Arabs was very loose.

"I do not remember manifestations of racism or discrimination in those years," said bin Issam.

According to him, the friendships with friends and neighbors from Kiryat Haim continued for many years after they left the city in 1976.



"I educated my children to manage their lives without feelings of inferiority or frustration," Hanna Haddad said in an interview with journalist Joseph Walter.

"I said to my son, if anyone shouts at you: 'You piece of Arab!'

"They replied, 'A piece of Jew.' Personally, I do not recognize religions, I do recognize people," he said at the time.

"The police have changed, not me"

Although he was well known in the Arab localities in the Galilee, most of Haddad's publicity came since he was placed in the investigative branch in the Haifa area in a new position - investigator of special crimes.

He is also sometimes called upon to assist in other police areas.

Some of the cases were widely publicized at the time, such as the investigation of 11 robberies of bank branches in the Tel Aviv and Ashdod area, or the murder of a Haifa-based Jadeite.

In another case, an assassination in the underworld in the city, the investigation led to the conviction of three men who were sent to life imprisonment, with another man serving as a state witness.



"To be a good investigator one has to be patient, with strong nerves and complete self-control," Walter told a reporter. "An investigator who shows nervousness during an interrogation will soon find himself interrogated."

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"Hanna was restless in the face of the conviction."

Amos Burns (Photo: Reuven Castro)

One case particularly frustrated him, for many years - the murder of soldier Rachel Heller in October 1974. Haddad was appointed the first commander of the IDF (Special Investigation Team) to investigate the murder, which shocked the country. The investigators' findings led him to conclude that it was not a random murder. The



team under investigation investigated Amos Burns, but released him. Haddad's suspicion fell on Yoram Bichonsky, a friend of Heller's, and he concluded that he was the main suspect. However, his request to arrest him was rejected by Commissioner Shaul Rosolio, and Haddad. The frustrated man decided to retire from the police force.

"The IDF commander who replaced him did receive permission to arrest Bikhonsky, it was alleged, because he had new findings. It should be emphasized that Bikhonsky's interrogation ended in nothing.



Although Burns was convicted, Haddad doubted the verdict." He was restless in the face of the conviction, "he said. His son, Issam. "I thought it was necessary then to investigate more undeciphered murders and try to find similarities between them.

They said 'OK', but in the end it did not happen and filed an indictment, "Haddad said in an interview with Walla! NEWS a year and a half ago. A year later he finally took off his uniform." He said: The police changed, no I changed and left, "Issam Jr. said.

Longing for a Jewish-Arab partnership.

Haddad (courtesy of the Knesset website)

This did not end his public service.

In the 1981 elections, Haddad established a list that ran in the Knesset elections, but the 8,300 votes he received were not enough to enter the Knesset.

In 1984, he was appointed as Adviser on Arab Affairs by Police Minister Haim Bar-Lev, and in this context he worked to recruit Arab academics to the ranks of the police.

"I think it 'would not hurt' the police to step up their internal advocacy system against anti-Arab prejudices," Dayan told a reporter.



In 1988, he was appointed by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to be a member of the Israeli delegation to the UN, and in 1995 he entered the Knesset after Avraham Burg retired in favor of the Jewish Agency. He served as a Knesset member for about a year and was even deputy speaker.

However, after the 1996 election he did not return to the House of Representatives.

After retiring from the police, he returned with his wife to live in Turan, following which their children also moved there.



By the end of his life, Haddad was involved in what was happening in Israel, and longed for an Arab-Jewish partnership in Israel.

"Noble man," his son defined him.

A week and a half ago he died, and was brought for burial in his hometown, Turan.

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