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Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
President of Yemen from 2012 to 2022
Abdul Salam Arif
20th-century Iraqi politician
Abdul-Karim Qasim
Prime Minister of Iraq from 1958 to 1963
Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
11h Ruler of Kuwait and 1st Emir of the State of Kuwait
Abdullah al-Sallal
First president of North Yemen
Abdullah Gül
Turkish politician
Abdullah I of Jordan
Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
Abdullah II of Jordan
King of Jordan since 1999
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia (2005-2015)
Adnan Menderes
Turkish politician
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani
Emir of Qatar
Ahmad bin Yahya
King and Imam of Yemen from 1948 to 1962
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
4th president of Iraq
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
10th President of Turkey
Ali Abdullah Saleh
President of Yemen, 1978 to 2012
Amin al-Hafiz
Syrian politician and army general (1921–2009)
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel and Israeli general
Asma al-Assad
First Lady of Syria (born 1975)
Bachir Gemayel
Lebanese politician and a resistance commander and President of Lebanon (1947-1982)
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria since 2000
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)
Celâl Bayar
Turkish politician; President of Turkey (1950-1960)
Chaim Herzog
Israeli politician
David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001
Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Saudi king from 1982 to 2005
Faisal II
3rd king of Hashemite Iraq
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
Fouad Chehab
Third president of Lebanon (1902-1973)
George Vassiliou
3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1988-1993)
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Hafez al-Assad
Former President of Syria
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Emir/King of Bahrain since 1999
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
Hussein of Jordan
King of Jordan (r. 1952–1999)
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Emir of Bahrain from 1961 to 1999
İsmet İnönü
Turkish politician (1884–1973)
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Emir of Kuwait from 1977 to 2006
Jalal Talabani
6th president of Iraq
Khalid of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia (1975—1982)
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
2nd Ra'is of the United Arab Emirates
Mahmoud Abbas
President of Palestine since 2005
Makarios III
Archbishop of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and 1st President of Cyprus
Menachem Begin
6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-83)
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi crown prince and minister of defence
Moshe Katsav
Israeli politician
Moshe Sharett
2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
1st president of Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014
Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen consort of Jordan
Rafic Hariri
Former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Rashid Karami
Lebanese politician
Rauf Denktaş
Founding President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
Riad Al Solh
Lebanese politician (1894–1951)
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Emir of Kuwait in 2006
Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
12th Ruler of Kuwait and 2nd Emir of the State of Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Said bin Taimur
Sultan of Oman
Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Syrian politician (1912-1980)
Salman of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia since 2015
Saud of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia between 1953 and 1964
Shimon Peres
Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister and then President of Israel (1923-2016)
Shukri al-Quwatli
President of Syria (1891–1967)
Spyros Kyprianou
2nd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1932–2002)
Süleyman Demirel
President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000
Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi
Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates
Talal of Jordan
King of Jordan
Tansu Çiller
Turkish politician, who has been the first female prime minister of the country
Turgut Özal
8th president of Turkey
Yasser Arafat
President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel (1974–1977; 1992–1995)
Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli politician; Prime Minister of Israel (1983-1984, 1986-1992)
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Sheikh of Abu Dhabi