The cabinet of the Palestinian Authority from 1994 to 2006
This reference file lists the ministers of the PA from the creation of the cabinet in 1994 (in which ministers served in an acting capacity), through to its formal establishment in 1996, and onto the present day. Links are provided to biographies of most of the members of the cabinet.
Please note that this file is incomplete, and contains a ? when the status of a particular individual is not known. It may also contain inaccuracies, as the information contained here is derived largely from secondary sources and non-official documents of the PA.
If errors are apparent, please see
the contact details on the index page.
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1994 (acting capacity) |
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1996
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1998
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2002
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Apr 2003
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Oct 2003 (Emergency cabinet)
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Nov 2003
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Feb 2005
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Mar 2006
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Prime Minister
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Mahmud
'Abbas
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External
Affairs / Foreign Minister (Planning and International Cooperation until
April 2003)
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Minister
of Finance
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Minister
of Education
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Nasir al-Sha'ir
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Hamas
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Na'im
Abu al-Hummus
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Yasir
'Amr (resigned Aug98)
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Minister
of Interior / Security Affairs
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Mahmud
'Abbas
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Fatah
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Muhammad
Dahlan
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Ahmad Tamimi (deputy minister of the interior)
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Minister
for Local Government
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'Isa al-Ja'bari
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Khalid Qawasmi
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Minister of Housing and Public Works |
Ziyad al-Zaza
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Muhammad Ishtiya
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Azzam
al-Ahmad
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Azzam
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'Abd
al-Rahman Hamad
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'Abd
al-Rahman Hamad
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Zakariyya
al-Agha
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Fatah
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Minister
of Negotiations Affairs
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Minister
of Health
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Basim Na'im
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Zihni al-Wihaydi
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'Abd al-Hafiz al-Ashhab
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Minister
of Justice
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Ahmad al-Khalidi
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Farid al-Jallad
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Nahid al-Rayyis
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Minister
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Ala' al-Din al-'Araj
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Mahir
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Sa'id
al-Karunz
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Fatah
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Bashir
Barghuthi
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PPP
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Ahmad
Qurai' (left to become speaker of PLC)
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Fatah
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Minister
of Information (also of Culture and the Arts until April 2003)
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Yusuf Rizqa
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Hamas
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Nabil Sha'th
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Fatah
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Minister
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Fatah
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'Abd
al-Rahman Hamad
(natural resources) |
'Abd
al-Rahman Hamad
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Fatah
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Minister
for Social Affairs
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Fakhri Turkman
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Hassan Abu Libdeh
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Minister
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Muhammad al-Barghuthi
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Minister
of Telecommunications
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Independent
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Minister
of Culture
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'Atallah Abu al-Saba
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Hamas
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Yahya Yakhlaf
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Yahya Yakhlaf
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Fatah
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Minister
of Civil Affairs
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Fatah
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Minister
of Higher Education
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Munther Salah
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Independent
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Hanan
'Ashrawi
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Independent
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Minister
of Tourism
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Juda Jurja Mirqis
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Ziyad al-Bandak
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Ilyas
Frayj (d. Mar98)
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Minister
of Planning (before Apr 2003, Minister of Supply)
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Independent (Hamas-aligned)
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Minister
of Prisoner Affairs
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Sufiyan Abu Zaydi
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Minister
of Transport
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Sa'ad al-Din Kharma
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Hikmat Zayd
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'Abd al-'Aziz al-Haj Ahmad
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Fatah
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Minister
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