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Born in 1920 in Tiberias, Palestine. He is a descendant of an old and distinguished family closely related to Ibrahim al-Sabbagh, the personal physician and financial advisor of Dhahir al-‘Umar, the Palestinian leader who challenged Ottoman rule in Palestine in the eighteenth century.

His grandfather Habib Sabbagh was a deputy of the French consul in Safad, and his uncle Tuma Sabbagh would later become French consul in Safad and Tiberias, as would Tuma’s nephew Yusuf upon his uncle’s death.

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Hasib’s mother, Faduk, was the eldest child of As‘ad al-Khoury, who sought refuge in Safad from the 1860 civil war in Lebanon. As‘ad was a self-made man who became a large landowner in the al-Hula region, married into the Haddad family, and had two daughters and five sons.

Hasib Sabbagh was first sent to a co-educational Catholic school in Safad.

Later he and most of his siblings entered public school, while his brother Munir and sister Suad at