Boy, what a dumb article!
He was born in 1939, in Jerusalem, in Palestine, which was what the British called the territory they controlled under a mandate from the League of Nations.
What logic would it have made to refer to the fact that his birthplace was from 1948 to 1967 was split between Israel and Jordan and has since 1948 been controlled by Israel?
In 1939, when he was born, the area was known as Palestine.