A team from the Yasser Arafat Foundation, led by its Director General, Dr. Ahmed Sobh, visited the governorates of Hebron and Bethlehem on, Monday, 5/6/2023, to introduce the Foundation's programs and activities. Jibreen Al-Bakri, Governor of Hebron, and Kamel Hamid, Governor of Bethlehem, welcomed the Foundation's team.
Dr. Ahmed Soboh met with numerous members of local community institutions, as well as governmental and civic groups in the two governorates.
The fundamental purpose of the Yasser Arafat Foundation said to Dr. Ahmed Soboh, is to maintain the biography and march of the founding leader, Yasser Arafat, as well as to preserve his material and moral history.
Dr. Ahmed Sobh presented the Foundation's programs and activities to the audience, including the Yasser Arafat Achievement Award 2023, the National Knowledge Competition, Yasser Arafat Summer Camps, the Yasser Arafat archive and products, commemorating the founding leader's martyrdom, and a program from the national memory, "The Companions of the Path" and the "Land Ownership Program" of refugees.
Dr. Soboh additionally referred to the Foundation's quarterly "Awraq Filistinia" journal, which features political and cultural articles.
Dr. Soboh invited the audience to visit the Yasser Arafat Museum, which is regarded as the crown gem of the foundation's work, and to witness the museum display that depicts the history of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian conflict with the occupation over the last 100 years. Dr. Soboh also, explained the annual Yasser Arafat Award, its procedure, its requirements, and how to run for it, urging participants to nominate.
An introductory film about the Yasser Arafat Foundation and the Yasser Arafat Achievement Award was screened at the end of the two meetings.