Trivia

Reportedly a huge "Tom and Jerry" fan. He would make guests wait if they interrupted him watching an episode until it had finished.

Had one daughter, Zahwa, born 24 July 1995, in Paris.

Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).

Arafat was born August 24, 1929, in Cairo, Egypt, though he has often said he was born in Jerusalem. He was the sixth of seven children of a Palestinian merchant and his wife, a member of a prominent Arab family in Jerusalem

Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin.

His hobby was watching Warner Brothers cartoons.