Ibrahim Dakkak (1929-2016) was a Palestinian civil engineer and activist. He is remembered as a leading figure in Jerusalem public life, particularly after the onset of Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

Among his most notable legacies are the reconstruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque after it was burned in 1969 and his leadership in the development of key Palestinian educational and intellectual institutions as well as unions and political organizations.

Dakkak was born in Jerusalem in 1929. He attended kuttab schools at the elementary level followed by the Islamic School. He earned his diploma from the Rawdat al-Ma‘arif al-Wataniyya School. In between high school and university he worked for the Jerusalem Post Office.

Following the Nakba, Dakkak went to Cairo to complete his studies. He graduated from the American University in Cairo with degrees in science and mathematics in 1952. While there he was also part of the Union of Palestinian Students.

He then worked as a teacher in Kuwait but was expelled with a number of other political activists. In 1959, he moved to Istanbul University (Robert College) to study civil engineering.

Dakkak returned to Jerusalem, then under Jordanian occupation, and began working for Ittihad Enterprises Company. He supervised the construction of Tira College for Girls in the city of Ramallah and then an agricultural school in Shawbak. He then founded his own company with a partner that worked on a number of other projects, including in Jericho, Ramallah, Azariyya, and Jerusalem.

Following the onset of Israeli occupation, Dakkak became more involved in organized politics as part of resistance. He worked with the Engineers Association, the Union of Pharmacists, and the Bar Association and also joined the Higher Islamic Council of Jerusalem.

He was placed in charge of architectural reconstruction of the al-Aqsa Mosque after a fundamentalist tourist set fire to it in 1969.