Prepared by: Hadeel Wahdan

President Arafat, assistants and advisers worked intensively to prepare the Palestinian delegation for the Camp David Summit. The core group taking part in the closed discussions with Israel at the Camp David resort consists of 11 members, including Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

• Arafat, Yasser (Abu Amar)

President of the Palestinian Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
• Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen)

Born in Safad in Palestine in 1935. He is the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and is member in the Central Committee of Fateh, President Arafat's faction.
• Abed Rabbo, Yasser (Abu Bashar)

Born in Jaffa; member of FIDA, Palestinian Democratic Union, a small pro-Fateh faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Minister of Culture and Information in the Palestinian Authority. He is also a member of the PLO Executive Committee and headed the Palestinian delegation to the final-status negotiations.
• Al-Yahya, Abdul Rizzaq

Brigadier General and head of the Palestinian Higher Committee for security coordination with Israel. Also was Chief of Staff for the Palestinian Liberation Army until the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.
• Asfour, Hassan

Minister of NGO Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Independent and an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Asfour also took part in the secret talks in Oslo, Norway.
• Erekat, Sa'eb

Born in Abu Dis near Jerusalem, head of the Palestinian negotiating delegation to the interim talks and Palestinian Authority Minister of Local Government and Municipal Affairs. Also a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh, the second level in the Fateh leadership.
• Dahlan, Mohammed

Gaza Chief of Preventive Security Service head. Member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council.
• Haniyah, Akram

Chief Editor of Al-Ayyam, the semi-official Palestinian newspaper. Member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council.
• Qrei', Ahmad (Abu Ala')

Born in Abu Dis, Jerusalem; member of the Central Committee of Fatah since 1989; Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council; head of the Palestine Liberation Organization economic department. He was also the PLO's negotiator during the secret talks with Israel in Oslo, Norway in 1993, which resulted in the Declaration of Principles.
• Rashid, Mohammed (Khaled Salam)

President Arafat's economic adviser and close confidante. Rashid handles the Palestinian Authority's business dealings.
• Sha'ath, Nabil

Born in Safed, Nabil Sha'ath is Palestinian Authority Minister of Planning and Inter-national Cooperation and a member of the Central Committee of Fateh.