- Reportedly a huge "Tom and Jerry" fan. He would make guests wait if they interrupted him watching an episode until it had finished.
- Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
- Had one daughter, Zahwa, born 24 July 1995, in Paris.
- 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.
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