POLITICIAN

Saeb Erekat

1955 - 2020

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Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (Arabic: صائب محمد صالح عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt; also ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat; 28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020. He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He participated in early negotiations with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saeb Erekat has received more than 374,972 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Saeb Erekat is the 12,452nd most popular politician (up from 12,979th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saeb Erekat ranks 12,452 out of 19,576. Before him are Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Oliver North, Valérie Trierweiler, Blas Infante, Ptolemy of Epirus, and Trpimir II of Croatia. After him are Parthamaspates of Parthia, Karl Vaino, Christophe Soglo, Vitaly Churkin, Naram-Sin of Assyria, and Song Ping.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Saeb Erekat ranks 199. Before him are Fernando Trueba, Anupam Kher, Matteo Zuppi, Dominique Rocheteau, Verónica Forqué, and Oleg Salyukov. After him are Djamel Zidane, Cai Qi, Huh Jung-moo, Edinho, Claudio Gugerotti, and Bambi Woods. Among people deceased in 2020, Saeb Erekat ranks 291. Before him are Tomás Balcázar, Ivan Passer, Sonja Edström, Theodor Wagner, Abdurrahim El-Keib, and Rafer Johnson. After him are Carlo Ubbiali, Johnny Nash, Jeremy Bulloch, Duje Bonačić, Edén Pastora, and Wojciech Pszoniak.

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