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Majid Faraj, likely successor to Mahmoud Abbas.

Faraj was closely involved in the recent Cairo talks for a Hamas cease-fire in the Gaza war.

It was Faraj who soothed over matters for Kerry during the Secretary of State’s doomed-from-start peace talks that ended in a “poof” earlier this year.

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A man like Faraj, with the trust of Mahmoud Abbas, the respect of the Americans and Israelis, and the benefit of having a disproportionate amount of information on almost every political player in the West Bank, could position himself very well in the future,” Grant Rumley, research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote on the NationalInterest.org website last month.


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Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.