Arafat theme park coming soon

The Toronto Star introduces us to Sakher Habash, executive director of the National Committee for Immortalizing the Symbol of the…

By January 31, 2005

The Toronto Star introduces us to Sakher Habash, executive director of the National Committee for Immortalizing the Symbol of the Immortal Leader Yasser Arafat:

The astonishingly fanciful title means he oversees a 50-person committee charged with reinventing the Mukata compound as a kind of Arafat theme park.

What exists today, he says, is just the beginning. Plans are being hatched for a mosque, a library and a national archive on the grounds of this former British police headquarters.

© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025

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