Jibril rajoub biography samples

Palestinian politician (born 1953)

Jibril Mahmoud Muhammad Rajoub (Arabic: جبريل محمود محمد الرجوب; born 14 May 1953), also known by his kunyaAbu Rami (أبو رامي),^[1] is a Palestinian political leader, legislator, and former militant.

He leads the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee.^[2] He was the head of the Preventive Security Force in the West Bank until being dismissed (along with the force's chief in Gaza, Ghazi Jabali) in 2002.^[3][4] He had been a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council until 2009^[5] and was elected to the Fatah Central Committee at the party's 2009 congress,^[2] serving as Deputy-Secretary until 2017,^[5] before being elected Secretary General of the Central Committee in 2017.^[6]

Biography

Early years

Rajoub was born in the town of Dura, near Hebron.

In 1968, he was arrested by Shin Bet at age 15 on suspicion