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Mayors of Jerusalem
(1899-2008)
| 1899 - 1907 |
Yussef
Diya'udin Din Al-Khalidi (Pasha) |
| 1907 - 1909 |
Faidi
Al-Alami |
| 1909 - 1917 |
Selim Effendi Al-Husseini |
| Dec 9, 1917
- Dec 27, 1917 |
Bill Borton
(British military governor) |
| Dec 28, 1917 - 1 July
1,1920 |
Sir
Ronald Storrs (British military governor) |
| 1917 - 1918 |
Aref
Al-Dajani |
| Mar 1918 - Apr 1920 |
Musa
Qassem Al-Husseini |
| 1920 - 1934 |
Ragheb
Nashashibi |
| 1934 - 1937 |
Hussein Fakhri
Al-Khalidi |
| Oct 1, 1938 - Aug 1944 |
Mustafa Al-Khalidi |
| 1944-1945 |
Daniel
Auster (1st time) * |
| 1945 - May 13, 1948 |
Municipal Committee
** |
| East
Jerusalem |
|
| 1948 - 1949 |
military governor |
| 1948 - 1950 |
Anwar Al-Khatib |
| 1950 - Sep 1951 |
Aref
Al-Aref |
| Oct 1951 - Mar 1952 |
Hanna Atallah |
| Mar 1952 - 1955 |
Omar Wa'ari |
| 1955 - Jan 1957 |
Municipal Committee*** |
| Jan 1957 - Jun 1967 |
Ruhi Al-Khatib |
| 1967 - 1999 |
Amin Al-Majaj |
| 1999 - May 31, 2001 |
Faisal Abdul Qader Al-Husseini
(de facto) |
| West
(from 1967 Greater) Jerusalem |
|
| Aug 1948 - Jan 1949 |
Dov Joseph (military
governor) |
| Jan 1949 - 1950 |
Daniel Auster (2nd time) |
| 1950 - 1952 |
Shlomo Zalman Shragai
(Mizrachi) |
| 1952 - 1955 |
Yitzhak Kariv
(Mizrachi) |
| 1955 - Nov 1, 1959 |
Gershon
Agron (Mapai) |
| Nov 1959
- 1965 |
Mordecai
Ish-Shalom |
| Nov 1965
- Nov 1993 |
Teddy
Kollek (Rafi/ Labor in
1968) |
| Nov 1993-2003 |
Ehud
Olmert (Likud) |
| 2003-2008 |
Uri
Lupoliansky (Agudat
Yisrael) |
| 2008- |
Nir Barkat |
* Daniel Auster was appointed mayor by the
British High Commissionerafter the death
of Mustafa Al-Khalidi in 1944 . The Jewish
Agency demanded a Jewish mayor, but the
Muslims wanted a Muslim mayor, as had been
the practice since 1877. From 1945 until
the end of the mandate a mayor and two
deputy mayors were appointed by the British.
Auster was Deputy Mayor until the death
of Al-Khalidi. See: Bovis, Eugene H. The
Jerusalem Question. Hoover Policy Study
No. 1. 1971. p. 33.
** From 1945 until the end
of the mandate a mayor and two deputy mayors
were appointed by the British. See: Bovis,
Eugene H. The Jerusalem Question.
Hoover Policy Study No. 1. 1971. p. 33.
***The municipal law was
ammended in 1955, appointing two additional
members to the council and reappointing Aref
Al-Aref as mayor for a few months. (PASSIA)
Sources:
1. World
Statesman.
2. Bovis, Eugene H. The
Jerusalem Question. Hoover Institution
Studies 29 (Policy 1), 1971.
3. Gutman, Matthew. "New
Jerusalem mayor stirs anxiety among the city's
secular population." JTA.
(February 18, 2003).
4. PASSIA.
5. The
Jerusalem Municipality. |
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