Dr. Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض; b. 1952) is a Palestinian politician, who, on June 15, 2007, was appointed the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. Until that date, Fayyad had been the Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in the Fatah interim government from 2002. The Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority is the head of government of the Palestinian government. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Ismail Haniyeh (sometimes written Ismail Haniya), born January 1963, (Arabic: إسماعيل هنيةة, אסמאעיל ×”× ×™×™×”) is a senior political leader of Hamas and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. ... The Third Way is a small centrist Palestinian political party active in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority is the head of government of the Palestinian government. ... Anthem: Biladi Capital Ramallah and Gaza de facto, as the current location of government institutions. ... Fatah (Arabic: ); a reverse acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: Palestinian National Liberation Movement) is a major secular Palestinian political party and the largest organization in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a generally secular multi-party confederation. ... A provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a previous administration or regime. ...

Fayyad is a highly respected politician in the Israeli establishment and has close ties with the Bush administration. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student of William A. Barnett and where he did early research on the American Divisia Monetary Aggregates, which he continued on the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Dr. Fayyad began his career teaching economics at Yarmuk University in Jordan, before joining the World Bank, from 1987 - 1995. An economist and a former World Bank official who lived in the United States for twenty years, he was an official of the World Bank from 1987-1995 and subsequently became the International Monetary Fund representative to the Palestinian National Authority until 2001, before becoming its Finance Minister. The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is a doctoral/research university located in Austin, Texas. ... William Arnold Barnett is an American economist whose current work is in the field of chaos and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem. ... The monetary aggregates currently in use by the Federal Reserve (and most other central banks around the world) are simple-sum indices in which all monetary components are assigned a unitary weight, as follows where is one of the monetary components of the monetary aggregate . ... The Federal Reserve Bank of St. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

Upon resigning as Finance Minister, Fayyad ran as founder and leader of the new Third Way political party in the Palestinian legislative election of 2006 alongside Hanan Ashrawi. The Third Way is a small centrist Palestinian political party active in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Hamas wins Palestinian election On January 25, 2006, elections were held for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). ... Hanan Ashrawi Dr. Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (born 8 October 1946 in Ramallah, Palestine) is a Palestinian Anglican scholar and political activist. ...

He is seen as pro-Western and was predicted to be offered the post of the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority by both Fatah, and as of January 26, 2006, also by the winner of the elections: the List of Change and Reform (Hamas). In response to the offer, Fayyad presented several conditions to becoming Prime Minister, including that Hamas would recognize Israel, which Hamas declined. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority is the head of government of the Palestinian government. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Hamas (Arabic: ; acronym: Arabic: , or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or Islamic Resistance Movement; the word Hamas means strength and bravery according to its charter on MidEast web[1]) is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that currently (since January 2006) forms the majority party of the Palestinian National Authority. ...

Both Fayyad and Ashrawi represent their party, which won two seats, in the Legislative Council. On March 18, 2007, Fayyad was appointed Finance Minister of a new Fatah-Hamas unity government. ^[1] On June 15, 2007, following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip and its new government, Fayyad was appointed Prime Minister of a new Fatah-led government. Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... The Palestinian Legislative Council, (sometimes referred to to as the Palestinan Parliament) the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 88 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Combatants Hamas Fatah Casualties 22 killed 77 killed 17 killed (civilians) [1] The Battle for Gaza (Arabic: ) took place between June 12 and June 14, 2007 and resulted in Hamas taking control of the Gaza Strip. ... Since the Battle of Gaza (2007), the Gaza Strip is no longer under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, placing it under the lead of Hamas, the political rival of Fatah. ...

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• Hamas promises major changes in PLC: "Some Palestinians predicted that Hamas might ask former finance minister Salam Fayyad to head the new cabinet, so as to avoid a boycott by the international community." — Jerusalem Post, (January 27, 2006)
• Salam Fayyad: Everyone's favorite Palestinian: This article provides much relevant background. — Haaretz, (April 1, 2007)