Nine years after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and more than a year after Al Jazeera broadcast a report claiming he died of radiation exposure to polonium 210, the circumstances of Arafat’s death remain a mystery. Since February of last year, however, teams of Swiss toxicology experts have been seeking to solve the…
Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat’s corpse in the West Bank on Tuesday, trying to determine if he was murdered with the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, polonium. Palestinians witnessed the funeral of their hero and longtime leader eight years ago, but conspiracy theories surrounding his death have never been laid to rest. Many are convinced…
The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday. A French court opened a murder inquiry in August into Arafat’s death in Paris after a Swiss institute said it had discovered…
Russia will join an international investigation to determine whether the first Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, was murdered, the current Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Sunday. French and Swiss experts are due to exhume Arafat’s body in Ramallah later this month in an attempt to discover how he died after an Al Jazeera documentary in…
French prosecutors have launched a formal murder investigation into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, AFP news agency reported Tuesday. AFP reported that the prosecutor’s office in the town of Nanterre west of Paris had ordered a murder investigation following a formal complaint by Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat. The probe will be…
Former Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat may have died of radioactive poisoning, Al Jazeera is reporting. Reuters said Palestinian leaders had agreed to allow his body to be exhumed to perform tests that could confirm or refute the account. Al Jazeera’s report released Tuesday, following a nine-month investigation, cites findings by The Institut de Radiophysique…
Two interesting comments have come from readers about [my November 25 column][1] on the Jewish toast “l’chaim,” which I traced back to a medieval custom, still practiced by Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jews, that is connected to the Kiddush, the traditional Sabbath and holiday blessing over wine. The first of these, from Harold Zvi Slutzkin…
ער פֿלעג זיך צוהערן ווי די מאַמע און באָבע שמועסן אויף ייִדיש און נישט באַנומען פֿאַר וואָס ער פֿאַרשטייט זיי נישט.
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