Jacob

Jacob (later given the name Israel) is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites. According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob (/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב Standard Yaʿakov) was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.

Jacob's twelve sons, named in Genesis, were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. His only daughter mentioned in Genesis is Dinah. The twelve sons became the progenitors of the "Tribes of Israel".

As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob and his sons moved to Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy. After 17 years in Egypt, Jacob died and Joseph carried Jacob's remains to the land of Canaan, and gave him a stately burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, and Jacob's first wife, Leah.

Albert Jacob

Albert Paul Jacob (born 16 March 1980) is Minister for Environment and Heritage in the Western Australian Government.

Education and career

Jacob was an horticulturalist before studying Architecture and graduating as a Bachelor of Environmental Design and completing a Masters in Architecture at the University of Western Australia. He served as a City of Joondalup councillor (North Central Ward) before being elected to the W.A. Parliament.

Since 2009, he has served on the Joondalup Health Campus Community Board of Advice, of which he was chairman as of March 2013. He is vice-patron of the W.A. branch of Surf Life Saving Australia and of his local club, Mullaloo Surf Life Saving Club of which he is a patrolling member.

He is chairman of the Tamala Park Coastal Reserve Community Advisory Committee, and of the Mitchell Freeway Extension Community Reference Group. He was the inaugural deputy chair of the Ocean Reef Marina Committee.

Parliamentary

Mr Jacob has been a Liberal Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2008 state election, in which he was elected to the new seat of Ocean Reef, overcoming a notional Labor majority to win it.