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President of the Palestine Football Association Jibril Rajoub is seen after speaking during the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, Canada on April 30, 2026. (Don MacKinnon / AFP)
June 12, 2026, 3:19 pm
Palestinian soccer chief says US, Canada haven’t granted him visa to attend World Cup
Senior Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub decries move as unfair, after attending soccer championship’s opening match in Mexico
By SAM METZ
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Football Association, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 7, 2018. (Thaer Ganaim/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)
June 7, 2026, 2:36 am
In rare critique, senior PA official says Abbas’s exclusion of political rivals is mistaken
Jibril Rajoub tells ToI that those backing exiled ex-security chief Dahlan shouldn’t be forced to sign ‘humiliating’ individual amnesty requests, as demanded by ruling Fatah party
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by his two sons Yasser (L) and Tarek (R), gives a short statement before leaving a hospital near Ramallah in the West Bank on May 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
May 17, 2026, 4:39 pm
Early results in Fatah leadership vote show Abbas’s son, intelligence chief elected
Millionaire Yasser Abbas expected to get seat on party’s powerful Central Committee, as will Zakaria Zubeidi, ex-head of Fatah terror group who was behind dozens of attacks
By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
FIFA President Gianni Infantino shakes hands with Basim Sheikh Suliman (left), vice president of the Israeli Football Association, as Jibril Rajoub (right), president of the Palestine Football Association, leaves the stage at the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, Canada on April 30, 2026. (Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)
May 1, 2026, 8:22 am
Palestinian soccer chief refuses to shake hands with Israel federation VP at FIFA event
Jibril Rajoub accuses FIFA president of failing to understand ‘deep suffering’ of Palestinian people after Infantino urged the two to ‘give hope to the children’; Israel’s rep had said, ‘We are proud of their squads and our squads’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Football Association, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 7, 2018. (Thaer Ganaim/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)
March 13, 2025, 10:40 pm
Abbas may be the last PA leader who believes in two states, warns potential successor
Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated
By Jacob Magid
Photographs of the victims killed and held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, December 12, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
December 9, 2024, 5:15 pm
Israeli officials: Report Hamas gave list of hostages to be freed under deal is incorrect
Government pointman dismisses Arabic paper’s claim that would indicate advanced stage of talks; FM Sa’ar says he is more optimistic than before, ‘but we are not there yet’
By ToI Staff and Reuters
A large poster reading A year NOW, referring to Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 2023, is seen in Tel Aviv. December 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
December 9, 2024, 10:06 am
Israel and Hamas exchange lists of names for release as talks advance – report
Four US citizens said to be among those who would be set free in initial stages, along with elderly and sick; Israeli delegation said heading to Cairo for mediated talks
By ToI Staff
Israel's national soccer team players pose ahead of the Euro 2024 group I qualifying soccer match between Israel and Romania at the Pancho Arena in Felcsut, Hungary, November 18, 2023. (Denes Erdos/AP)
August 31, 2024, 3:25 pm
FIFA again delays review of Palestinian call to suspend Israel from world soccer
Sport’s global governing body says it has received legal assessment from independent third party but does not share details; meeting to be held on matter in October
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Athletes of Team Palestine wave flags on the athletes' parade team boat along the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Michael Reaves / POOL / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 8:04 am
Palestinian Olympian wears shirt showing planes bombing children at opening ceremony
Shirt cleared with IOC despite political messages being banned from game events; meanwhile, Israeli athletes forbidden from wearing yellow ribbon for hostages
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee, Palestinian Olympic athletes and members of the delegation arrive at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, north of Paris, on July 25, 2024. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
July 25, 2024, 5:54 pm
Palestinian Olympic head decries IOC ‘double standards’ for letting Israel compete
Jibril Rajoub says Israel has no right to compete due to war in Gaza after Olympic committee rejects his request to ban Jewish state from Paris Games
By AFP and ToI Staff
FIFA President Gianni Infantino walks on the stage before the start of the 69th FIFA congress in Paris, June 5, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
July 18, 2024, 3:22 pm
Report by lawyers behind ICJ ‘genocide’ case urges banning Israel from world soccer
In private report for Eko social justice nonprofit, South African scholars assert that Israeli actions ‘undermine’ objectives of sport’s governing body FIFA
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Portraits of the victims are displayed at the end of a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, at the Fuerstenfeldbruck Air Base, southern Germany, on September 5, 2022. (Thomas KIENZLE / AFP)
July 14, 2024, 11:11 pm
Paris memorial for 1972 Olympics massacre to be held in secret over threats – report
Israel Olympic Committee says decision to relocate and postpone Paris City Hall event due to logistics; Palestinian Authority minister tells athletes to bring ‘resistance’ to Games
By AFP and ToI Staff
President of the Israel Football Associated Shino Moshe Zuares delivers his speech at the 74th FIFA congress in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
May 18, 2024, 1:22 am
World soccer’s ruling body seeks legal review on Palestinian demand to suspend Israel
FIFA postpones vote, as Israel’s rep slams proposal, saying it has ‘nothing to do with the spirit of sports or the FIFA value of separating sports from politics’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People wave Palestinian, Hamas and Fatah flags during a march in support of the people in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 26, 2023 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
February 22, 2024, 4:16 pm
What would a ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority be?
Even before reforming its endemic corruption, the PA must stop promoting Jew hatred and accept Israel’s existence
By Maurice Hirsch and Yossi Kuperwasser
Renana Gome (middle) with her sons, Yagil Yaakov (left) and Or Yaakov, reunited after the boys' release on November 27, 2023 from Hamas captivity since October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
November 28, 2023, 12:45 pm
Daily Briefing Nov 28: Day 53 – Amid joy, chilling details from released hostages
Political correspondent Tal Schneider describes Hamas hostages’ captivity; Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on Hamas in West Bank and a Lebanese Christian’s Israel advocacy
By ToI Staff
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