Former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Al-Bakhit has passed away after a long battle with illness. Al-Bakhit died on Saturday and was buried in his hometown Mahis. Born in 1945, he originates from the Abbad Jordanian tribe. Bakhit enrolled in the Jordanian Armed Forces-Arab Army in 1964 and retired in 1999 as a Major General. He also served as Jordan's ambassador to Türkiye in 2000-2004 and then to Israel. At the beginning of 2005, Jordan's King Abdullah II summoned him to be the Director of His Office and Director of the Higher National Security Council.