Biography Yasser Arafat (1996)

Born in Cairo in 1929 Yasser Arafat was named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 40 years later From this post he was at the forefront of years of violence border disputes and the Palestinian liberation movement all centering on neighboring Israel Arafat signed a selfgoverning pact with Israel in 1991 at the Madrid Conference and together with Israeli leaders made several attempts at lasting peace soon after notably through the Oslo Accords 1993 and the Camp David Summit of 2000 Stemming from the Oslo Accords Arafat and Israels Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize but the terms were never implemented Arafat ceded his PLO chairman post in 2003 and died in Paris in 2004