Dr. Abdul Malik al-Jaber

Abdul Malik al-Jaber was the first chairman of the YAL Palestine Country Office when it was founded in 2006, a position he held until 2008. Today he is on YAL’s board of directors. Al-Jaber, who is also the chairman of the board of the Paltel Group, spoke to Executive about the challenges of running an entrepreneurial agency for young people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. E How did the YAL – Palestine Chapter start, and when? Young Arab Leaders – Palestine Chapter was established in July 2006. The members decided to form this branch so that Palestine can become one of the major pillars of this initiative and play the role expected from it by Palestinian and Arab young leaders of the future. Further, I felt that Palestine needed to be more connected with the Arab world and YAL was the ideal platform. We worked with the YAL leadership in