الاسم: حليمة يعقوب

السن: 65 عامًا

الجنسية: سنغافورية

المهنة: رئيسة سنغافورة

Marital status: She is married to Yemeni businessman “Abdullah Al-Habshi”

عدد الأبناء: 5

As a child, she sold homemade meals outside universities, never imagining that she would become the world’s first Muslim woman to lead a large Islamic nation;

She is Halimah Yacob, who became President of Singapore unopposed. She excelled in raising people’s standard of living and making her country the world’s fourth-largest

A financial center in the world.

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النشأة

Halimah was born to a Malay mother and an Indian father, who worked as a security guard. At the age of eight, she faced life’s hardships alongside her mother after her father’s death.

Her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to shoulder the burden of supporting the family.

Halimah began selling nasi padang—a popular Malay meal of steamed rice and fish—outside the former Singapore Polytechnic, along

Prince Edward Road. This did not stop her from attending Singapore Chinese Girls’ School. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Laws in 1978 from

the National University of Singapore.

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The Start of Her Career

In 1981, Halimah was called to the Singapore Bar. She worked as a legal officer at the National Trades Union Congress, eventually becoming director of its legal department.

عام 1992.

In 1999, she chaired the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies. In 2001, Halimah earned a Master of Laws from the National University of Singapore.

On July 7, 2016, the university honored her with an honorary doctorate.

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Entering Politics

Halimah Yacob entered politics in 2001, when she was selected to represent the Jurong Group in Parliament. She was then appointed Director of Legal Services and Development

for Women at the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), where she also headed the Women’s Department.

Halimah worked in the Women’s Development Department and served as secretary of the Electrical and Electronic Industries Workers’ Union. She was then elected an assistant director of the International Labour Conference

(ILC) in Geneva, serving from 2000 to 2002 and again in 2005.

Throughout 2003 and 2004, she served as the official spokesperson for the organization (ILC), Human Development and Development Branch.

She was selected to serve as Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports following the 2011 general election, but after the Cabinet reshuffle

in November 2012, she became Minister for Family and Social Solidarity.

In January 2015, Halimah became President of the People’s Action Party—the party’s highest-ranking position—and was the party’s sole candidate in the

2015 Singaporean general election.

On January 8, 2013, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong chose her to succeed Michael Palmer as Speaker after Palmer resigned, making her

The first woman to hold this position in Singapore’s history.

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Singapore presidential election

On August 6, 2017, Halimah announced her intention to step down as Speaker of Parliament to run in that year’s Singapore presidential election,

succeeding Tony Tan Keng Yam.

The election was restricted to members of the Malay community, and on August 25, 2017, Halimah officially launched her campaign under the slogan: “Do it well, do

بها معنا”.

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منصب الرئاسة

Halimah Yacob became the world’s first hijab-wearing Muslim woman to assume the presidency unopposed. The largely ceremonial office also made her Singapore’s second president of Malay ethnicity,

after Yusof Ishak, who took office after the country gained independence from Malaysia in 1965.

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Her achievements over two years

Singapore’s income increased by around $2 trillion.

The income of Singaporean citizens rose to $85,000.

The Singaporean passport became the world’s most valuable, after Japan’s.

Corruption levels fell, making Singapore the third least corrupt country in the world.

The unemployment rate fell to 1%.

Around 10,000 mega-projects were completed.

All taxes on Singaporean products were eliminated.

National income increased by $5 trillion.

The best airport in the world

A national output of $300 billion.

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Social life

Halima loves simplicity and is known for her modesty. She married Mohammed Abdullah Al-Habshi, a Malaysian of Yemeni descent, in 1980. They lived in a home consisting of

one room and had five children.

Although she is over 60, she still plays football with Singapore’s women’s team. She also enjoys cooking and avoids fast food.

She performs the dawn prayer every day with a number of her employees.

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Awards

Woman of the Year award in 2001.

World of Women Award in 2003.

Consciousness Award in 2011.

Inducted into the Singapore Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Lessons Learned:

— Relentless dedication: Halimah never stopped working throughout her life, and her dream of improving the standard of living for Singaporeans never faded.

-التواضع: Halimah remained humble despite serving as the country’s president. The trappings of a glamorous life never changed her; instead, her experiences helped her understand the hardships faced by working women.

-لا للمستحيل: There are no impossibilities in the vocabulary of Entrepreneur, who, as a young girl, faced life bravely alongside her mother after her father passed away, and went on to

hold some of the highest offices in the world.