Khader El-Yateem

In May 2018, El-Yateem announced he would be moving to Florida.

In 2017, El-Yateem began a campaign for New York City Council in District 43.

In August 2017, El-Yateem played a key role in getting the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island to remove a plaque commemorating Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a cemetery in Fort Hamilton, placed there by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, in the wake of the violence surrounding the Unite the Right rally to protest a similar memorial's removal in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In 2012, the Bay Ridge Community Council presented the Civic Award to El-Yateem for his work at Salam Arabic Lutheran Church and the Bay Ridge Unity Task Force.

El-Yateem was a clergy liaison to the NYPD, acting as a connection between the community and law enforcement. He is a co-founder of the Bay Ridge Unity Task Force, formed in 2000 by Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious leaders, civic activists, and business leaders to combat post-9/11 bigotry.

Khader El-Yateem (born October 20, 1968) is a New York community organizer and Arab-American faith leader from Palestine. He is the Director for Evangelical Mission Assistant to the Bishop (South Region) Florida-Bahamas Synod, ELCA. El-Yateem was a candidate for New York City Council.

El-Yateem was born in Beit Jala in the Bethlehem Governorate in 1968, and emigrated to the United States in 1992. He holds a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and a bachelor's degree from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt.