Yasir Arafat

Background
Yasir Arafat was the chairman and later president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Arafat visited Washington, D.C. to meet with United States officials and New York for the signing of the peace accords. He managed to talk Tariq al-Hourani out of assassinating him.

Gabriel Allon visited Arafat because Khaled al-Khalifa, adopted by Arafat as a boy, had grown up to be a terrorist responsible for the bombing of the embassy of the Israel in Rome. Arafat denied any knowledge of Khaled's whereabouts.