ARAB LEADERS:
<u>-Yasser Arafat</u>
Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian nationalist leader, president of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority and leader of the secular political party Fatah, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel on behalf of of the self-determination of the Palestinians. Although he had opposed the existence of Israel, in 1988 he changed his position and accepted Resolution 242 of the United Nations Security Council.
<u>-Anwar Sadat</u>
Anwar Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as president and prime minister of Egypt since the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in September 1970, and was re-elected in unopposed elections in 1974 and 1978, this being the last presidential election before of the reintroduction of the multiparty system in 1979 (also during his term), remaining in office until his assassination on October 6, 1981.
<u>-Gamal Abdel Nasser</u>
Gamal Abdel Nasser was an Egyptian military and statesman and the main Arab political leader of his time, known promoter of pan-Arabism and Arab socialism. He held the position of President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
ISRAELI LEADERS:
<u>-David Ben-Gurion</u>
David Ben-Gurion was a Zionist leader, Israeli politician and statesman, prime minister of Israel between 1948 and 1954 and again between 1955 and 1963. He was one of the main mentors of the Jewish state and who officially proclaimed the independence of the State of Israel, the May 14, 1948.
<u>-Yitzhak Rabin</u>
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician. He was the seventh Prime Minister (1974-1977) - the first born in the country - and again between 1992 and 1995, when he was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an extremist Jewish student of Bar Ilan University, belonging to the Israeli radical right and opposite to the ideas of giving territories in exchange for peace.
<u>-Golda Meir</u>
Golda Meir was a politician, diplomat and, as a statesman, the sixth prime minister of Israel, the first woman in Israel and second in the world to assume such a high office.
