Path Breakers - Yasser Arafat (English)

"Yasser Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 until his death in 2004, a tumultuous period in which clashes with neighbouring Israel wer prevalent.

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 years of violence, border disputes, and the Palestinian liberation movement, all centering on neighboring Israel. Arafat signed a self-governing 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 Dayid Summit of 2000, Stemming from the Oslo Accords, Arafat and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peae Prize, but the terms were never implemented."