February 3, 1969 (the twelfth lunar month 17) Shigenobu, Arafat became the leader of the Palestinian armed forces.


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Arafat, Arafat was born in Jerusalem on August 4, 1929. 1950, into the Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University to learn, and was elected as the President of the Palestinian Union of Students. In 1959, Arafat to establish the "Palestinian National Liberation Movement" (referred to as the "Fatah") and published a book of Palestinian. By the end of 1964, he formed the Fatah military organization, "Storm" commando. In 1969, Arafat appointed the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee. In 1973, he was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Palestinian Revolutionary Armed Forces. April 2, 1989, he was elected President of the State of Palestine, reelected president in September 1991. July 1994 (history com) by Tunisia, he returned to the Palestinian autonomous regions presided over the work of the Self-Governing Authority. In the same year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In January 1996, the Palestinian autonomous region held its first general election, he was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority.