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The Cabinet
House of Notables - Senators
Lower House of the Parliament

Government of Prime Minister Samir Rifai
The new 29-member government headed by Prime Minister Samir Rifai
was sworn in before His Majesty King Abdullah II on December 14, 2009.
Following are the members of the new Cabinet appointed:

 

Prime Minister and Defense Minister
 Samir Rifai
 Tel: 464 - 1211  Fax: 464 - 2520  Website: www.pm.gov.jo

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State
Rajai Muasher
 Tel: 464 - 1211  Fax: 464 - 2520  Website: www.pm.gov.jo

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education
Khaled Karaki
Tel: 560 - 7181  Fax: 566 - 6019  Website: www.moe.gov.jo 

Minister of Finance
Mohammad Abu Hammour
 Tel: 560 - 7191  Fax :568 - 4692  Website: www.mof.gov.jo

Minister for Political Development
Musa Maaytah
 Tel: 560 - 7191  Fax :568 - 4692 

Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications
Ali Al Ayed

Minister of Foreign Affairs
 Nasser Judeh
 Tel: 464 - 4311  Fax: 465 - 0859  Website: www.mfa.gov.jo 

Minister of Planning and International Cooperation
 Jaafar Hassan
 Tel: 464 - 4466  Fax: 464 - 9341  Website: www.mop.gov.jo 

Minister of Justice
Hisham Tal
Tel: 465 - 3533  Fax: 464 - 3197 Website: www.moj.gov.jo 

Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs
Suhair Al Ali

State Minister for Prime Ministry and Legal Affairs
Ibrahim Omoush 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior
 Nayef Qadi
 Tel: 569 - 1141  Fax: 560 - 6908 Website: www.moi.gov.jo

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs
Tawfiq Kreishan

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Walid Maani
Tel: 534 - 7671 Fax: 533 - 7616  Website: www.mohe.gov.jo 

Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs
Abdul Salam Abbadi
 Tel: 566 - 6141  Fax: 560 - 2254 Website: www.awqaf.gov.jo

Minister of Water and Irrigation
Mohammad Najjar
Tel: 563 - 3100  Fax: 568 - 0075  Website: www.mwi.gov.jo

Minister of Labour
Samir Murad
Tel: 569 - 8186  Fax:566 - 7193  Website: www.mol.gov.jo

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
Suzanne Afaneh
Tel: 464 - 2311  Fax: 464 - 8465  Website: www.mota.gov.jo

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
Khalid Irani
Tel: 586 - 3326   Fax: 586 - 5714  Website: www.memr.gov.jo 

Minister of Social Development
Hala Latouf
Tel: 593 - 1518  Fax: 560 - 7519  Website: www.mosd.gov.jo

Minister of Public Works and Housing
Mohammad Obeidat
Tel: 585 - 0470  Fax: 585 - 7590
Tel: 551 - 8111  Fax: 552 - 7233  Website: www.mpwh.gov.jo 

Minister of Municipal Affairs
Ali Ghezawi
 Tel: 464 - 1393  Fax: 464 - 0404  

Minister of Public Sector Development and Minister of State for Mega-Project
Imad Fakhoury

Minister of Culture
Nabih Shuqum
Tel: 569 - 6598  Fax: 569 - 6218   Website: www.culture.gov.jo

Minister of Health
Nayef Fayez
Tel: 566 - 5131  Fax: 568 - 8373  Website: www.moh.gov.jo 

Minister of Industry and Trade
Amer Hadidi
 Tel: 560 - 7191  Fax :568 - 4692  Website: www.mit.gov.jo

Minister of Environment
 Hazem Malhas
 Tel: 556 - 0113   Fax: 556 - 0288   Website: www.moenv.gov.jo 

Minister of Information and Communications Technology 
 Marwan Juma
 Tel: 585 - 9001  Fax: 582 - 5262  Website: www.mopc.gov.jo

Minister of Transportation
Alaa Batayneh
 Tel: 551-8111 Fax: 552-7233  Website: www.mot.gov.jo

Minister of Agriculture
Mazen Khasawneh
Tel: 568-6151  Fax: 568-6310  Website: www.moa.gov.jo

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Members of the Jordanian Upper House of Parliament

  1. Zeid Rifai

  2. Taher Masri

  3. Ali Abul Ragheb

  4. Faisal Fayez

  5. Fayez Tarawneh

  6. Adnan Badran

  7. Marouf Bakhit

  8. Marwan Hmoud

  9. Marwan Dudin

  10. Rajai Muasher

  11. Layla Sharaf

  12. Kamel Ajlouni

  13. Riad Shakaa

  14. Mohammad Hamdan

  15. Marwan Kamal

  16. Hisham Tal

  17. Yousef Dalabih

  18. Nader Thuheirat

  19. Salwa Masri

  20. Hammad Abu Jamous

  21. Saadeddin Jumaah

  22. Aqel Biltaji

  23. Mohammad Wahsh

  24. Saleh Qallab

  25. Roweidah Maaitah

  26. Hakem Qadi

  27. Amjad Majali

  28. Farouq Qasrawi

  29. Salem Turk

  30. Abdul Hafez Kaabneh

  31. Michel Hamarneh

  32. Daoud Hanania

  33. Khalil Fanatsah

  34. Haidar Murad

  35. Fawwaz Abu Tayeh

  36. Ayed Adaileh

  37. Wijdan Saket

  38. Abdul Hamid Shoman

  39. Issam Bdeir

  40. Nawal Faouri

  41. Samih Momani

  42. Turki Haddad

  43. Fakhri Abu Taleb

  44. Mohammad Adwan

  45. Mohammad Shawabkeh

  46. Mohammad Khreisat

  47. Ahmad Ajarmeh

  48. Jaafar Hneiti

  49. Manaf Hijazi

  50. Kheireddine Hakooz

  51. Ibrahim Zu’bi

  52. Abdul Majid Thneibat

  53. Ahmad Abu Rbeiha

  54. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh

  55. Janet Mufti

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Lower House of Parliament
 The 15th Jordanian Parliament

AMMAN

FIRST DISTRICT
1. Khalil Hassan Atiyyeh
2. Jaafar Abdullat
3. Hasan Mahmoud Safi
4. Azzam Hneidi

 

SECOND DISTRICT
1. Hamzah Mansour
2. Mohammad Selmi
3. Hassan Al Kouz
4. Mohamamd Hussein
5. Selmi Al Kouz
6. Yousef Qarneh

THIRD DISTRICT
1. Mamdouh Abbadi
2. Ahmad Safadi
3. Abdul Rahim Biqai
4. Yousef Bustanji
5. Tareq Khouri (Christian)

FOURTH DISTRICT
 1. Khalaf Abdul
2. Karim Raqqad
3. Hamad Saleh Abu Zeid
4. Nidal Hadid
FIFTH DISTRICT
1. Mohammad Abu Hdeib
2. Ahmad Adwan
3. Samih Bino (Muslim/Circassian-Chechen)

SIXTH DISTRICT
1. Nassar Qeisi
2. Lutfi Mahmoud Hasa
3. Munir Sobar (Muslim /Circassian-Chechen)
SEVENTH DISTRICT
1. Adnan Khalaf Sawaeer
IRBID

FIRST DISTRICT
1. Rasmi Mallah
2. Qassem Bani Hani
3. Abdullah Mustafa
4. Gharaibeh
5. Mohammad Zanati

SECOND DISTRICT
1. Abdul Ra’uf Rawabdeh
2. Husni Shayyab
3. Raji Haddad (Christian) 

THIRD DISTRICT
1. Aser Sharman

FOURTH DISTRICT
1. Ahmad Bashabsheh
2. Hashem Shboul
FIFTH DISTRICT
1. Salah Zu’bi
2. Yehya Obeidat		 SIXTH DISTRICT
1. Yaseen Bani Yaseen
 
SEVENTH DISTRICT
1. Khalid Bakkar 		EIGHTH DISTRICT
1. Sharaf Haiajneh
NINTH DISTRICT
1. Mahmoud Mheidat
BALQA
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Mahmoud Kharabsheh
2. Hazem Al Nasser (Christian)
3. Yaseen Zu’bi
4. Bassam Manasir
5. Mubarak Abbadi
6. Sleiman Ghneimat
7. Fakhri Eskandar (Christian)
8. Ad Daoud		   SECOND DISTRICT
1. Mahmoud Ahmad Adwan
THIRD DISTRICT
1. Khalid Satri		 FOURTH DISTRICT
1. Mohammad Khalil Aqel
KARAK
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Abdul Hamid Dhneibat
2. Abdul Fattah Maaytah
3. Abdul Ghanem Zreiqat (Christian)		 SECOND DISTRICT
1. Abdul Hadi Majali
2. Michel Hijazin (Christian)
THIRD DISTRICT
1. Atef Tarawneh
2. Yousef Sarayreh

FOURTH DISTRICT
1. Jamil Hshoush
 

FIFTH DISTRICT
1. Ali Dalaeen

SIXTH DISTRICT
1. Nasr Hamaideh
MAAN
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Tawfiq Kreishan
2. Adel Ibrahim Meshri 		SECOND DISTRICT
1. Wasfi Rawashdeh
THIRD DISTRICT
1. Hani Nawafleh
ZARQA
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Deifallah Qallab Omoush
2. Fawwaz Hamad
3. Hamdallah
4. Merza Boulad (Muslim/Circassian-Chechen)
5. Bassam Haddadin (Christian)		 SECOND DISTRICT
1. Musa Barakat Zawahreh
2. Musa Rashid Khalaileh
3. Farhan Nouman Ghweiri
THIRD DISTRICT
1. Nawwaf Meqbel Zyoud		 FOURTH DISTRICT
1. Marzouq Habarneh
2. Mohammad Al Haj
3. Mohammad
MAFRAQ (excluding Northern Badia)

1. Abdul Karim Feisal Dughmi
2. Tayseer Shdeifat
3. Ibrahim Mohammad
4. Omoush
5. Mefleh Rafali

TAFILEH
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Ibrahim Eteiwi
2. Abdul Rahman Hanaqtah
3. Mohammad Abdul
4. Rahim Awwad		 SECOND DISTRICT
1. Mohammad Ismael Saudi
MADABA

FIRST DISTRICT
1. Yousef Suleiman Abu Sleih
2. Riyadh Salameh Yaqoub (Christian)
3. Mohammad Abul Hayyeh  

 SECOND DISTRICT
1. Falak Jamaani
JERASH

1. Mohamamd Zreiqat
2. Mefleh Rheimi
3. Ahmad Otoum
4. Sleiman Salameh Khalaf
AJLOUN
FIRST DISTRICT
1. Najeh Momani
2. Mohammad Qudah
3. Rida Khalil Haddad (Christian)		 SECOND DISTRICT
1. Ayman Shwayyat
AQABA (excluding the Southern Badia)

1. Ziad Shweikh
2. Mohammad Badri

BADIA
NORTH BADIA
1. Habes Shabib
2. Saed Srour
3. Sowan Shurufat  		 CENTRAL BADIA
1. Saleh Jbour
2. Mejhem Khreisha
3. Mohammad Shraa
SOUTH BADIA
1. Awwad Zawaideh
2. Sanad Neimat
3. Abdullah Haroun Jazi
Seats allocated for women by quota

1. Insaf Khawaldeh- 16.5 per cent- Second District, Tafileh
2. Hamdieh Nawwaf Qweider- 12 per cent- Sixth District, Karak
3. Reem Abdul Razzaq- 11.3 per cent- Third District, Zarqa
4. Tharwat Salameh Amr- 11 per cent- Second District, Karak
5. Nariman Rousan- 9.1 per cent- Fifth District, Irbid
6. Amneh Gharaghir-Third District, Balqa

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