Birth: NULL/NULL/1927 Death:NULL/NULL/1978
Born in Safad in 1927 to a Greek Orthodox family; educated in Haifa; became a refugee during the 1948 Nakba; graduated in Medicine from the AUB in 1952; established together with George Habash a clinic for poor Palestinians in Amman; worked with UNRWA in 1956; participated in the establishment of the ANM; was arrested by Jordan in 1957 and imprisoned for three years; went to Syria in 1961; took up commando action from 1963; was a founding member of the PFLP in 1967; and directly involved in planning the first PFLP hijacking in July 1968 of an El Al jet; considered the key organizer of other hijackings; after Black September 1970, was heavily criticized by the PFLP and left to form a new group to continue operations (the PFLP – External Operations); was expelled from the PFLP following the Entebbe operation of June 1976; died in East Germany of leukemia on 28 March 1978; died in East Germany of leukemia on 28 March 1978.
