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Jibril Rajoub

Jibril Rajoub

Jibril Rajoub

Advisor for National Security

(Born 1953)

Born in 1953 in Dura near Hebron, Rajoub was first known as a top street fighter in the first Intifada in the late 1980s. He was sentenced by Israel to life imprisonment in 1970 for throwing a grenade at a convoy of Israeli soldiers and is reported to have learnt Hebrew in Israeli prison. He was released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange but was expelled from the West Bank to Lebanon in 1988. He then joined the PLO leadership in Tunis and served Arafat's Intifada Advisor until his return to West Bank in 1994.

Under Arafat, Rajoub became the Preventive Security chief in the West Bank and has been a negotiator on security issues with the Israelis under U.S. mediation. In August 2003, he was appointed advisor for National Security.

(Source: Jewish Virtual Library and BBC Online.)

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