1. Ismail Haniyeh (1963)

Palestinian Politician

Senior political leader of the Hamas group and one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Despite being dismissed as Prime Minister in 2007 he has continued...

2. Faisal Husseini (1940)

Palestinian Politician

Iraqi born Palestinian politician who was a member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem during the 1980s. He also served as the Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs.

3. Leila Khaled (1944)

Palestinian Politician

Palestinian political figure and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was convicted of hijacking an airliner in 1970.

4. Adnan al-Husayni (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Adnan Ghaleb al-Husayni is the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem and of the Quds Governorate Waqf supervisor and also a member of the Palestinian Authority Higher Council of Tourism. He...

5. Ahmed Jibril (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Ahmed Jibril is the founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. Since its inception in 1968 the PFLP-GC has staged numerous attacks...

6. Khaled Yashruti (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Khaled Yashruti was a Palestinian political activist and a leading member of the PLO.

7. Ahmed Khalidi (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Ahmed Mubarak Al-Khalidi has been the Minister of Justice of the Palestinian National Authority since March 2006 when Hamas won the elections and took clear control of the Palestinian Legislative...

8. Farouk Kaddoumi (1931)

Palestinian Politician

uk al-Kaddoumi also known as Abu al-Lutf is Secretary-general of Fatah's central committee and PLO's political department in Tunisia.

9. Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari was a Nazareth-born Bedouin who studied law in Jerusalem graduating in 1939. al-Hawari served in the British Mandate administration as chief interpreter in the district court of...

10. Muhammad Abu Tir (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Muhammad Hassan Abu Tir is a member of Hamas and a representative on the Palestinian Legislative Council for his East Jerusalem constituency. He was elected to the position in the...

11. Salim Zanoun (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Salim Zanoun also known as Abu al-Adib is a veteran Palestinian politician. He has served as the chairman of the Palestinian National Council since 1993. Zanoun was one of the...

12. Ghassan Khatib (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Ghassan Khatib is a Palestinian politician. He was born in Nablus in the West Bank and is a member of the Palestinian People's Party. Khatib is married with three...

13. Nabil Shaath (1938)

Palestinian Politician

Nabil Ali Muhammad Shaath is a senior Palestinian official. He has held the following titles:Palestinian chief negotiatorPalestinian cabinet ministerPalestinian International Co-operation MinisterPlanning Minister for the Palestinian National AuthorityActing Prime Minister...

14. Moussa Arafat (1940)

Palestinian Politician

Moussa Arafat al-Qudwa was a cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He was one of the founders of the Fatah movement and also a leading official in the Fatah...

15. Muhammad Ali Ja'abari (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Sheikh Muhammad Ali Ja'abari was the long-serving mayor of the Palestinian city of Hebron appointed by Jordan from 1948 to 1976. Ja'abari was head of the Jericho Conference in Jericho...

16. Taysir Khalid (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Taysir Khalid is a member and Politburo member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

17. Samiha Khalil (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Samiha al-Qubaj Salameh Khalil also known as Umm Khalil was a Palestinian charity worker as well as a prominent figure in Palestinian politics. Born in a village she dropped out...

18. Jibril Rajoub (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Jibril Rajoub also known by his kunya Abu Rami is a Palestinian political and militant figure. He was the head of the Preventive Security Force in the West Bank until...

19. Samir Abu Eisheh (1960)

Palestinian Politician

Samir Abu Eisheh is the former Planning Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. He served in the Palestinian Tenth Government and Eleventh Government as an expert in planning. He...

20. Hind Khoury (1953)

Palestinian Politician

Hind Khoury is a Palestinian economist. She was the delegate general of the Palestine Liberation Organization in France from March 2006 until June 2010.

21. Adly Yaish (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Adly Yaish is the mayor of the Nablus Municipality in the central highlands of the West Bank under the Palestinian National Authority. He is a known businessman working in automobiles...

22. Nayef Rajoub (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Nayef Rajoub is the Religious Affairs Minister of the Hamas led Palestinian Authority cabinet and beekeeper. He has been arrested five times by Israel and once by his brother Jibril...

23. Qadura Fares (1962)

Palestinian Politician

Qadura Fares was a Palestinian Authority minister without portfolio under Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei from 2003 to 2005 and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for Fatah from 1996...

24. 'Abd as-Sattar Qasm (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

'Abd as-Sattar Qasm is a Palestinian politician who was born on September 12 1948 in Deir al-Ghusun in Tulkarm Governorate in the northern West Bank.

25. Amal Syam (1962)

Palestinian Politician

Amal Syam is a member of the Palestinian group Hamas. She served as the Minister of Women's Affairs in the March 2007 unity cabinet of the Palestinian National Authority.

26. Vera Baboun (1964)

Palestinian Politician

Vera George Mousa Baboun is a Palestinian politician and the first female mayor of Bethlehem. Baboun has a Masters degree in African-American literature. Prior to her election she was headmistress...

27. Salam Fayyad (1952)

Palestinian Politician

Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian politician and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and briefly the first Prime Minister of the State of Palestine. His first appointment on...

28. Omar Barghouti (1964)

Palestinian Politician

Omar Barghouti is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

29. Bassam as-Salhi (1960)

Palestinian Politician

Bassam Al-Salhi is a General Secretary of the Palestinian People's Party and elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was the party's candidate for President of the Palestinian Authority...

30. Intissar al-Wazir (1941)

Palestinian Politician

Intissar al-Wazir is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a former PNA minister. Her husband was Khalil al-Wazir a senior figure of the Palestine Liberation Organization who...

31. Jamal Tirawi (1966)

Palestinian Politician

Jamal Tirawi is a Palestinian lawmaker. He is member of Fatah. He is a former member and spokesman for Fatah in the Palestinian Legislative Council and former spokesman for Fatah...

32. Rawhi Fattouh (1949)

Palestinian Politician

Rawhi Fattuh is the former Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and was the interim President of the Palestinian Authority following the death of Yasser Arafat on November 11...

33. Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. She is a member of Hamas and the most senior woman among its deputies elected in 2006 since...

34. Zuheir Mohsen (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Zuheir Mohsen was a Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria as-Sa'iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization between 1971 and 1979. Previously active as a refugee in the Jordanian wing of...

35. Zuhir al-Qaisi (1963)

Palestinian Politician

Zuhair al-Qaisi also known by his nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim was secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza. He was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces. al-Qaisi...

36. Khaled Mashal (1956)

Palestinian Politician

Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian political leader and the leader of the Hamas political bureau since the Israeli assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004. After the founding of Hamas...

37. Jamal Abu Samhadana (1963)

Palestinian Politician

Jamal Abu Samhadana from Rafah in the Gaza Strip was the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees a former Fatah and Tanzim member and number two on Israel's list of...

38. Nasser al-Shaer (1961)

Palestinian Politician

Nasser al-Din al-Shaer is the former Education Minister of the Palestinian National Authority serving as a member of Hamas. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister in the previous...

39. Yaqub al-Ghusayn (1899)

Palestinian Politician

Yaqub al-Ghussein was an aristocratic Palestinian landowner from Ramla and founder of the Youth Congress Party. He graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. Ghussein was elected president...

40. Yasser Abed Rabbo (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Yasser Abd Rabbo is a Palestinian politician and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee. He holds an M. A. in economics and political science from...

41. Manya Shochat (1880)

Palestinian Politician

Manya Shochat was Russian Jewish politician and the mother of the collective settlement in Palestine the forerunner of the kibbutz movement.

42. Jamal al-Husayni (1894)

Palestinian Politician

Jamal al-Husayni was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the influential Husayni family. Husayni served as Secretary to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congress and...

43. Elias Freij (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Elias Mitri Freij was a Palestinian Christian politician. He was the mayor of Bethlehem from 1972 to 1997. Freij was born in 1918 in Bethlehem to a family which could...

44. Kamel al-Budeiri (1882)

Palestinian Politician

Muhammad Kāmil ibn Wahba al-Shāfi'ī al-Muqaddasī al-Budayrī was a famous Arab figure in the early 20th century.

45. Awni Abd al-Hadi (1889)

Palestinian Politician

Awni Abd al-Hadi was a Palestinian political figure. He was educated in Beirut Istanbul and at the Sorbonne University in Paris. His wife was Tarab Abd al-Hadi a Palestinian...

46. Daud Turki (Unknow)

Palestinian Politician

Daud Turki ) was a Palestinian-Arab poet living in Haifa Israel. He was the leader of the Jewish-Arab left-wing group called the Red Front which was an anti-Zionist group.