1937 - 2002
Sabri Khalil al-Banna (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا; May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council (Arabic: فتح المجلس الثوري), a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). At the height of its militancy in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely regarded as the most ruthless of the Palestinian groups.Abu Nidal ("father of struggle") formed the ANO in October 1974 after a split from Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Acting as a freelance contractor, Abu Nidal is believed to have ordered attacks in 20 countries, killing over 300 and injuring over 650. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Nidal has received more than 749,941 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Abu Nidal is the 49th most popular extremist (down from 47th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Israel (up from 108th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Extremist.
Abu Nidal was a Palestinian terrorist who was most famous for his 1983 assassination of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish American passenger on the Achille Lauro cruise ship.
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Among extremists, Abu Nidal ranks 49 out of 209. Before him are Henri Désiré Landru, Jeffrey Dahmer, Sawney Bean, Fritz Haarmann, Pavlik Morozov, and Madame de Brinvilliers. After him are Butch Cassidy, Patrizia Reggiani, Edmund Kemper, Gudrun Ensslin, Jordan Belfort, and Friedrich Jeckeln.
1869 - 1922
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 43
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 44
1600 - 1600
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 45
1879 - 1925
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 46
1918 - 1932
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 47
1630 - 1676
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 48
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 49
1866 - 1908
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 50
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 51
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 52
1940 - 1977
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 53
1962 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 54
1895 - 1946
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1937, Abu Nidal ranks 49. Before him are Juvénal Habyarimana, Andrei Konchalovsky, Ferdinand Piëch, Thomas Pynchon, Jacques Santer, and Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga. After him are Paolo Conte, Roger Zelazny, Anatoly Sobchak, Roald Hoffmann, Sajida Talfah, and Hunter S. Thompson. Among people deceased in 2002, Abu Nidal ranks 30. Before him are Robert Nozick, Nándor Hidegkuti, Fritz Walter, James Tobin, Jonas Savimbi, and Raf Vallone. After him are Alexander Prokhorov, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Ne Win, Zizinho, George Porter, and John Gotti.
1937 - 1994
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 43
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 44
1937 - 2019
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 45
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 46
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 47
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 48
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 49
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 50
1937 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 51
1937 - 2000
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 52
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 53
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 54
1937 - 2005
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 55
1938 - 2002
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 24
1922 - 2002
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 25
1920 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 26
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 27
1934 - 2002
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 28
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 29
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 30
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 31
1925 - 2002
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 32
1910 - 2002
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 33
1921 - 2002
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 34
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 35
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 36
Among people born in Israel, Abu Nidal ranks 106 out of 430. Before him are Philip the Tetrarch (-4), Dan Shechtman (1941), Canaan (null), Natalie Portman (1981), Philip the Evangelist (100), and Gene Simmons (1949). After him are Isaac Herzog (1960), Ofra Haza (1957), Aaron Ciechanover (1947), George Habash (1926), Nahum (-600), and Simeon of Jerusalem (100).
4 BC - 34
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 100
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 101
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 102
1981 - Present
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 103
100 - 100
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 104
1949 - Present
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 105
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 106
1960 - Present
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 107
1957 - 2000
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 108
1947 - Present
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 109
1926 - 2008
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 110
600 BC - Present
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 111
100 - 107
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 112
Among extremists born in Israel, Abu Nidal ranks 1. After him are George Habash (1926), Sirhan Sirhan (1944), Wadie Haddad (1927), and Yigal Amir (1970).
1937 - 2002
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 1
1926 - 2008
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 2
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 3
1927 - 1978
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 4
1970 - Present
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 5