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On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers

by | Nov 15, 2025 | JPost | 0 comments

Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988. (photo credit:  REUTERS/Frederic Neema)
November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat’s successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.