On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers Posted by NOWlej | Nov 15, 2025 | Israel NOWlej | 0 | November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat’s successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.. Read More in Israel NOWlej.