--- title: ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN description: Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1994-07-05T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-22T20:07:11.610Z article:section: U.S. og:title: ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN og:description: Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN twitter:description: Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 5, 1994 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 5, 1994 4:00 AM CUT Yasser Arafat’s plane staged a flyover near — but not too near — disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman’s swearing-in as leader of his ancestral Palestinian homeland. In Jericho, Arafat led12 members of the Palestine National Authority in the oath of office for the self-rule government, despite complaints that Israeli officials had allowed Jewish militants to block thousands of Palestinians from the modest ceremony. Next stop for Arafat: Paris, where he’ll receive a U.N. Peace Prize with Israeli leaders Wednesday. He’s likely to use the platform to wangle slow-coming international financial aid for the new state.parpar ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/"},"headline":"ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN","datePublished":"1994-07-05T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T20:07:11.610Z","description":"Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6919651/arafat-co-sworn-in/","name":"ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN"}}]}] ```