[45] Between 10 September and 6 October, Hussein secretly met with Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in Tel Aviv on 25 September.
[8] He returned home to cheering crowds. [52] Nevertheless, the Hashemite custodianship over the Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem was retained.
[28] Yitzhak Rabin, the then Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, later admitted the disproportionate reaction by Israel, and that the operation would have been better directed at Syria, which was supporting such attacks: "We had neither political nor military reasons to arrive at a confrontation with Jordan or to humiliate Hussein. Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال, Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. Royal Standard of the Crown Prince of Jordan. [8] The country was poor in natural resources, and had a large Palestinian refugee population resulting from the war – the annexation of the West Bank had made Palestinians two-thirds of the population, outnumbering Jordanians. 13.5k Followers, 23 Following, 267 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Crown Prince Hussein Fan Page (@cphusseinfanpage) The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said there are also 660,000 registered Syrian refugees, approximately 70,000 Iraqi refugees, 15,000 Yemeni refugees, and 6,000 Sudanese refugees in Jordan. [68] Several dissidents were imprisoned including Laith Shubeilat, a prominent Islamist. [19] Jordan reacted by arresting 40 suspected army officers, and Hussein called in Iraqi army chief of staff Rafiq Aref to brief him on the exposed plot. [99], Hussein was a trained pilot, flying both airplanes and helicopters as a hobby. [24], In January 1962 Wasfi Tal was appointed prime minister. [43] The talks between Arab countries and Israel resulted in a deadlock. [55] Protesters accused Zaid Al-Rifai's government of rampant corruption and demanded that the martial law in place since 1957 be lifted and parliamentary elections be resumed. [8], His Royal Highness Hussein, Crown Prince Of Jordan, Knight Of The Order Of The Star Of Jordan, Bahrain 1st Class Of The King Hamad Order Of The Renaissance (5 February 2019), Norway Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of St. Olav (2 March 2020), Unlike the King's, the Crown Prince's role is mostly ceremonial under the Constitution, and the title is not associated with any political post. The immediate succession path is less troubling than the possible challenges resulting from the accession of a young and untested king.
Hussein bin Abdullah (Arabic language: حسين بن عبد الله , Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdullāh; born 28 June 1994) is the heir apparent of King Abdullah II of Jordan. Jordan’s Crown Prince Just Flew A Chopper Over The Dead Sea. His sister Iman also attends the university, and is expected to graduate from its School of Foreign Service this year. [28] The incident drew fierce local criticism of Hussein amid feelings he had been betrayed by the Israelis; Hussein also suspected that Israel had changed its attitude towards Jordan and was intending to escalate matters in order to capture the West Bank. Hussein was married four separate times and fathered eleven children: Princess Alia from Dina bint Abdul-Hamid; Abdullah II, Prince Faisal, Princess Aisha, and Princess Zein from Antoinette Gardiner; Princess Haya and Prince Ali from Alia Touqan; Prince Hamzah, Prince Hashim, Princess Iman, and Princess Raiyah from Lisa Halaby. [86] Hussein inherited the throne to a young Kingdom, whose neighbors questioned its legitimacy, along with the Jordanian-controlled West Bank.
"[88] He turned the Kingdom from a backwater divided polity into a reasonably stable well-governed modern state.