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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Qassem al-Rimawi (1918–1982) was a former Jordanian prime minister. He was born in Rima's house. He completed his primary, preparatory and secondary studies at Rashidieh College and Arab College in Jerusalem. He was editor of the Jerusalem newspaper Al-Wahda from 1945 to 1947. He proceeded to form the forces of the Holy Jihad with the martyr Abdul Qader al-Husseini and appointed their secretary general. He was appointed commander of the Jerusalem and Ramallah area in the command center of the Holy Jihad to succeed the martyr al-Husseini. He participated in the Battle of Ras al-Ain, the Great Battle of Bab al-Wadi, the Battle of Qalandiya, the Prophet Jacob and Qastal. He went to Damascus and Cairo when the Jordanian army took control of the Birzeit area and was prevented from returning to Jordan, and was appointed secretary-general of the All-Palestine Government in 1949.
He received his bachelor's degree in sociology from the American University in Cairo in 1952 and became the official spokesperson for the All-Palestine Government at the United Nations. He received his degree (Professor of Science) from Columbia University in New York in 1954, then his doctorate from the same university in 1956, and received the Willard Street International Prize. He published a series of articles in Al-Bayan newspaper, and founded the Union of Islamic Associations in America and Canada.
He returned to Jordan and was appointed General Manager of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company until 1960. He was elected a member of the Jordanian Parliament in Ramallah until 1967 and held the post of minister several times, most recently in 1970, and was chosen as a member of the first Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in which he was the Director General of the Arab Circle. He headed the first Jordanian parliamentary delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1964 and the PLO delegation in the same year, and several times as a member of the Jordanian parliamentary delegation. He participated in several conferences around the world to explain the Palestinian cause and gave lectures and held seminars, the most recent of which was the conference of the Union of European Parliaments held in Bonn in 1971. King Hussein commissioned him to form the Jordanian government on July 3, 1980, and his cabinet included 21 ministers, and he resigned on August 28 of the same year.
Education
- Doctorate in Economics and Education, Columbia University, New York, 1956.
- Master's degree from the same university in 1954 (he was professor at this university in 1953 for administrative sciences and social affairs)
- Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the American University in Cairo in 1952
- Intermediate Degree in Law from the University of London
Ministries he occupied
Appointed Minister for the first time on 28/1/1962
- 28/1/1962-13/10/1962 Minister of Agriculture, Construction and Development
- 2/12/1962-27/3/1963 Minister of Agriculture
- 31/7/1965-23/12/1966 Minister of the Interior and Municipal and Rural Affairs
- 22/12/1966-4/3/1967 Minister of Interior for Municipal and Rural Affairs
- 27/6/1970-15/9/1970 Minister of Interior for Municipal and Rural Affairs and Minister of Agriculture
- 19/12/1979-3/7/1980 Minister of Agriculture
- 3/7/1980-28/8/1980 Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
Ministry of Dr. Qassem Al-Rimawi
Following the death of Abdul Hamid Sharaf, King Hussein bin Talal entrusted Dr. Qassem Al-Rimawi with the formation of a new ministry, and on July 3, 1980, he composed it as follows:
Prime Minister and Minister of Defense: Dr. Qassem Al-Rimawi
1 - Minister of Justice: Najib Irshidat 2 - Minister of Labor, Construction and Reconstruction: Omar Nabulsi 3 - Minister of Finance: Salem Assistant 4 - Minister of Public Works: Maan Abu Nawar 5 - Minister of Education: Mohamed Nouri Shafiq 6 - Minister of Transport: Mohammed Azoub Al-Zaben 7 - Minister of State: Hassan Ibrahim 8 - Minister of Endowments: Kamel Al-Sharif 9 - Minister of Foreign Affairs: Marwan Al-Qasim 10 - Minister of Agriculture and Minister of State for Prime Ministerial Affairs: Suleiman Arar 11- Minister of State for Prime Minister Affairs and Minister of Transport: Ali Al-Suhaimat 12- Minister of Information: Saeed Al-Tal 13- Minister of Interior: Ali Al-Bashir 14- Minister of Health: Zuhair Malhas 15- Minister of Municipal Affairs: Jamal Al-Shaer 16- Minister of Tourism and Antiquities: Muwaffaq Al-Fawaz 17- Minister of Culture and Youth: Taher Hikmat 18- Minister of Social Development: Anam Al-Mufti 19- Minister of Supply: Jawad Al-Anani 20- Minister of Industry and Trade: Ali Al , Nsour
Marital status
He married and has two children, Dr. Hatem Al-Rimawi and Dr. Hussein Al-Rimawi
His role in holy jihad
After High Commissioner Arthur Wakhoub appointed the martyr Abdul Qadir to the Land Settlement Department (it was the policy of the English to appoint the sons of the wealthy to government positions with very high salaries to buy them), after Abdul Qader received his job, he settled to live in the village of Ein Sina near Ramallah and there he got to know Dr. Qassem al-Rimawi who was leading with Mujahid Saleh al-Rimawi, Adib al-Rimawi and Tayseer al-Rimawi Others were leading a resistance jihadist current to counter the puppet current that had emerged at the hands of traitors who were trying to impose themselves as an opposition to the Arab Higher Committee, and the Rimawi family formed a dam by establishing the holy jihad movement.
The current of traitors enjoyed great financial support from the English, unlike the Rimawi family, who found in the leader Abdul Qader al-Husseini the support they needed, and Abdul Qader found what he was looking for to start the first Arab revolt that led to the strike of 1936.
Since the meeting, they have only been separated by the martyrdom of Commander Abdul Qader al-Husseini, where Dr. Qassem al-Rimawi took over the leadership of the holy jihad in the area of the Palestinian Bank and northern Palestine and commander Abdul Qader al-Husseini took over the leadership of the holy jihad in the rest of Palestine.
As soon as the news reached the leadership of the holy jihad in the West Bank and the north that the Jews were besieging Abdul Qadir and his men in the battle of Qastal and that the mujahedeen were fighting desperately because of the lack of men and weapons, the mujahid Dr. Qassem al-Rimawi came to the rescue of the besieged mujahedeen led by Abdul Qader al-Husseini at the head of about 500 mujahideen and Dr. Qassem took them with him several tanks he obtained as support from the mujahid Sheikh Hassan Salameh and set out to break the siege on al-Husseini.
Chronology
- He worked as an accountant in the Mandate Government of Palestine from 1943 to 1944
- He worked in journalism and was the director of the office of the Arab Party in Jerusalem
- Secretary of the Holy Jihad in 1947
- He received his bachelor's degree in sociology from the American University in Cairo in 1952.
- He holds an intermediate law degree from the University of London
- In 1954 he received his master's degree from Columbia University in New York.
- Founder of the United of Islamic Associations in America and Canada 1955
- In 1956 he received his Ph.D. in Economics and Education from Columbia University, New York.
- He was appointed Observer and Delegate of Palestine to the United Nations and Assistant Professor at Columbia University from 1952 to 1957.
- He worked as General Manager of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company in 1957.
- Expert at the Ministry of Economy and Statistics in 1961.
- Member of the Jordanian Parliament several times
- Minister of Agriculture, Construction and Development in 1962.
- He was chosen as a member of the first Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
- Speaker of the Jordanian House of Representatives 1967
- Minister of the Interior for Municipal and Rural Affairs and Minister of Agriculture in 1970
- Professor at the University of Jordan
- Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, 1980
- Chairman of the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs
- Member of the Jordanian Senate
of his works of fiction
- Alarm: A Novel / English 1951
- State and Labor: 1952
- Egypt's Industrial Challenge: 1956
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Achievements and Awards
Medals
- Dr. Al-Rimawi won the International Strite Scientific Award from Columbia University
- He also won the Order of the Jordanian Planet of the First Class
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