Munzer el-Ashhab

Dr. Munzer el-Ashhab (Arabic: منذر جودت الأشهب; b. 1959 in El-Sheikh, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian ophthalmologist and politician, who has served since 2013 as Chairman of the National Health Authority. He also continues to operate his private eye surgery clinic in Bab el-Zahara, Jerusalem, which he founded alongside Dr. Mohammed L. Mosa in 1990. El-Ashhab also holds Lebanese citizenship, as his family lived in Beirut where his father was born during his childhood from 1967 to 1975.