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Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian leader who served as the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004. He was also the first President of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996 to 2004. Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Palestinian parents. He studied at Cairo University and later joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a political and religious organization. In the 1950s, he moved to Kuwait and then to Qatar, where he worked as a teacher and journalist. In 1964, Arafat co-founded the Palestinian Fatah movement, which sought to establish an independent Palestinian state. He was elected chairman of the PLO in 1969 and led the organization until his death in 2004. During his tenure, Arafat was involved in numerous peace negotiations with Israel, including the Oslo Accords of 1993 and the Camp David Summit of 2000. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Arafat died in 2004 at the age of 75. He was succeeded as Chairman of the PLO by Mahmoud Abbas.
| Popular As | Muhammad 'Abd Ar-Ra'uf Al-Qudwah Al-Husayni |
| Occupation | miscellaneous |
| Age | 75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Born | 24 August, 1929 |
| Birthday | 24 August |
| Birthplace | Cairo, Egypt |
| Date of death | 11 November, 2004 |
| Died Place | Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Nationality | Egypt |
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Yasser Arafat Height, Weight & Measurements
At 75 years old, Yasser Arafat height is 5' 2" (1.57 m) .
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| Height | 5' 2" (1.57 m) |
| Weight | Not Available |
| Body Measurements | Not Available |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
Who Is Yasser Arafat's Wife?
His wife is Suha Tawil (17 July 1990 - 11 November 2004) ( his death) ( 1 child)
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| Parents | Not Available |
| Wife | Suha Tawil (17 July 1990 - 11 November 2004) ( his death) ( 1 child) |
| Sibling | Not Available |
| Children | Not Available |
Yasser Arafat Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Yasser Arafat worth at the age of 75 years old? Yasser Arafat’s income source is mostly from being a successful Miscellaneous. He is from Egypt. We have estimatedYasser Arafat's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 | $1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 | Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 | Pending |
| Salary in 2022 | Under Review |
| House | Not Available |
| Cars | Not Available |
| Source of Income | Miscellaneous |
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Timeline
Had one daughter, Zahwa, born 24 July 1995, in Paris.
Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin.
Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
In an effort to garner broader support for his movement in the 1980s he began to distance himself from the PLO's more violent factions like the Abu Nidal group, but has not firmly renounced terrorism as a means of achieving his goals to create a Palestinian state within Israel. He had residences in Gaza and Tunis, where the PLO has its headquarters.
In 1967, after the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War, he became the chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) where throughout the 1970s he directed the PLO in a series of terrorist attacks against Israel and its Western allies.
In the mid-1960s, Arafat emerged as the chief military and political leader of the Palestinian homeland movement. From his residence in Kuwait where he ran a successful engineering concern, he published the major nationalist organ, Our Palestine, and established Al Fatah, an acronym for the Movement for the Liberation of Palestine.
He saw some combat at Port Said and Abu Kabir during the Suez war of October 29-November 6, 1956.
After the war, Arafat entered the University of Cairo, earning a degree in engineering in 1955. During his student days, he began to train secretly as a guerrilla, becoming an expert in demolitions and taking part in raids on British installations near the Suez Canal. After his graduation from the university, Arafat was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Egyptian army.
When Arafat as 14, he was involved in gunrunning for Arab guerrillas in Gaza, a task he continued to perform during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948.
In the late 1940s, while a student in Egypt, he became an ardent Arab nationalist and adopted the name Yasir, after Yasir al Birah, a famous Arab resistance leader.
Yasir Arafat was born Muhammad 'Abd Ar-Ra'uf Al-Qudwah Al-Husayni on August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. He was raised in Cairo but always considered himself Palestinian.
