Son of Hamas

The Players

Sheikh Yousef Dawood — His paternal grandfather

Sheikh Hassan Yousef — His father; cofounder and leader of Hamas since 1986

Sabha Abu Salem — His mother

Ibrahim Abu Salem — His uncle (mother’s brother); a cofounder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

Dawood — His uncle (father’s brother)

Yousef Dawood — His cousin, son of Dawood, who helped him purchase inoperative weapons

Mosab’s brothers — Sohayb (1980), Seif (1983), Oways (1985), Mohammad (1987), Naser (1997)

Mosab’s sisters — Sabeela (1979), Tasneem (1982), Anhar (1990)

Hassan al-Banna — Egyptian reformer and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood

Jamal Mansour — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986; assassinated by Israel

Ibrahim Kiswani — Mosab’s friend who helped him purchase inoperative weapons

Loai — Mosab’s handler in the Shin Bet

Marwan Barghouti — Secretary-general of Fatah

Maher Odeh — Hamas leader and head of Hamas security wing in prison

Saleh Talahme — Hamas terrorist and Mosab’s friend

Ibrahim Hamed — Head of Hamas security wing in the West Bank

Sayyed al-Sheikh Qassem — Hamas terrorist

Hasaneen Rummanah — Hamas terrorist

Khalid Meshaal — Head of Hamas in Damascus, Syria

Abdullah Barghouti — Bomb maker

Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi — Hamas leader; leader of the deportee camp in Lebanon

Abdel-Basset Odeh — Hamas suicide bomber, Park Hotel

Abu Ali Mustafa — Secretary-general of PFLP; assassinated by Israel

Abu Saleem — Butcher; Mosab’s crazy neighbor

Adib Zeyadeh — Covert leader of Hamas

Ahmad Ghandour — Early leader of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Ahmad al-Faransi — Aide to Marwan Barghouti

Ahmed Yassin — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986; assassinated by Israel

Akel Sorour — Friend of Mosab and fellow prison inmate

Amar Salah Diab Amarna — First official Hamas suicide bomber

Amer Abu Sarhan — Stabbed three Israelis to death in 1989

Amnon — Jewish convert to Christianity and fellow prison inmate with Mosab

Anas Rasras — Maj’d leader at Megiddo Prison

Ariel Sharon — Eleventh prime minister of Israel (2001–2006)

Avi Dichter — Head of Shin Bet

Ayman Abu Taha — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986

Aziz Kayed — Covert leader of Hamas

Baruch Goldstein — American-born physician who slaughtered twenty-nine Palestinians in Hebron during Ramadan

Bilal Barghouti — Cousin of Hamas bomber Abdullah Barghouti

Bill Clinton — Forty-second president of the United States

Captain Shai — Israel Defense Forces officer

Daya Muhammad Hussein al-Tawil — French Hill suicide bomber

Ehud Barak — Tenth prime minister of Israel (1999–2001)

Ehud Olmert — Twelfth prime minister of Israel (2006–2009)

Fathi Shaqaqi — Founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and initiator of suicide bombings

Fouad Shoubaki — PA chief financial officer for military operations

Hassan Salameh — Friend of Yahya Ayyash, who taught him how to make bombs to kill Israelis

Imad Akel — Leader of Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing; killed by Israelis

Ismail Haniyeh — Elected Palestinian prime minister in 2006

Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri — Sbarro pizza parlor suicide bomber

Jamal al-Dura — Father of twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura, who Palestinians say was killed by IDF soldiers during a demonstration by Palestinian security forces in Gaza

Jamal al-Taweel — Hamas leader in the West Bank

Jamal Salim — Hamas leader killed in assassination of Jamal Mansour in Nablus

Jamil Hamami — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986

Jibril Rajoub — Head of security for the Palestinian Authority

Juma’a — Gravedigger in cemetery near Mosab’s childhood home

King Hussein — King of Jordan (1952–1999)

Kofi Annan — Seventh secretary-general of the United Nations (1997–2006)

Leonard Cohen — Canadian singer and songwriter who wrote “First We Take Manhattan”

Mahmud Muslih — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986

Majeda Talahme — Wife of Hamas terrorist Saleh Talahme

Mohammad — Founder of Islam

Mohammad Daraghmeh — Palestinian journalist

Mohammed al-Dura — Twelve-year-old boy allegedly killed by IDF soldiers during a Fatah demonstration in Gaza

Mohammed Arman — Member of Hamas terrorist cell

Mosab Talahme — Oldest son of terrorist Saleh Talahme

Muhammad Jamal al-Natsheh — Cofounder of Hamas in 1986 and head of its military wing in the West Bank

Muhaned Abu Halawa — Member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Najeh Madi — Covert leader of Hamas

Nissim Toledano — Israeli border policeman killed by Hamas

Ofer Dekel — Shin Bet officer

Rehavam Ze’evi — Israeli tourism minister assassinated by PFLP gunmen

Saddam Hussein — Iraqi dictator who invaded Kuwait in 1990

Saeb Erekat — Palestinian cabinet minister

Saeed Hotari — Dolphinarium suicide bomber

Salah Hussein — Covert leader of Hamas

Sami Abu Zuhri — Hamas spokesman in Gaza

Shada — Palestinian worker killed by mistake by an Israeli tank gunner

Shimon Peres — Ninth president of Israel, who assumed office in 2007; has also served as prime minister and foreign minister

Shlomo Sakal — Israeli plastics salesman, stabbed to death in Gaza

Tsibouktsakis Germanus — Greek Orthodox monk murdered by Ismail Radaida

Yahya Ayyash — Bomb maker credited with advancing the technique of suicide bombing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Yasser Arafat — Longtime chairman of the PLO, president of the PA; died in 2004

Yisrael Ziv — Israeli major general for the IDF

Yitzhak Rabin — Fifth prime minister of Israel (1974–1977; 1992–1995); assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical Yigal Amir in 1995

Zakaria Botros — Coptic priest who has led countless Muslims to Christ, via satellite television, by exposing the errors in the Qur’an and revealing the truth of Scripture