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Mayor Of Jerusalem
The Mayor of the City of Jerusalem is head of the executive branch of the political system in Jerusalem. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Jerusalem. The mayor's office is located in Safra Square; it has jurisdiction over all the city's neighborhoods. The mayor appoints many officials, including deputy mayors and city departments directors. History The Jerusalem City Council was established in 1863 during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. From 1948 to 1967 two municipalities operated in the city: an Israeli municipality provided services to the western neighborhoods of the city and a Jordanian municipality to its eastern parts. By 1840, the Jewish community constituted the largest single religious group in the city. From the 1880s onward, the Jews constituted the majority within the city. However, it was only in 1937, under the British Mandate, that the first Jewish mayor was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Municipality ( he, עיריית ירושלים; Iriyat yerushalayim), the seat of the Israeli municipal administration, consists of a number of buildings located on Jaffa Road in the city of Jerusalem. History British Mandate town hall (1930) Jerusalem's old town hall was built in 1930, during the British Mandate. The construction was financed by Barclays Bank, whose offices were located in the rounded section of the building facing the Old City walls. The building was designed by British architect Clifford Holliday. Stained glass windows designed by Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha were installed in the City Council Chamber in 1972. Israeli municipality compound (1990s) The new complex of the Jerusalem municipality was built in the 1990s in Safra Square. Offices were previously located in 32 different buildings around the city. As the site is at the historic centre of the city, various measures were taken to meet the practical needs of the town hall without d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faidi Al-Alami
Faidi al-Alami (Arabic: فيضي العلمي) was Mayor of Jerusalem from 1906 to 1909. In 1914, he was chosen to represent the city in the Ottoman parliament. His father, Musa al-Alami, was also a mayor of the city His son, another Musa al-Alami, was assistant attorney-general of Palestine under the British mandate. References See also *Sharafat, East Jerusalem Sharafat ( ar, شرفات) is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem,Cohen, 1993, p. 12. located within approximately 5 km to the south west of the Old City of Jerusalem.Ephrat, 2008, pp. 158–159. It is situated close to the Palesti ... {{Mayors of Jerusalem Arabs in Ottoman Palestine Palestinian politicians Mayors of Jerusalem 20th-century Palestinian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Al-Khalidi (cropped 3x4)
Mustafa al-Khalidi (Arabic: مصطفى الخالدي) was a Palestinian politician and member of the prominent Khalidi family. Between 1938 and 1944 he became the last Palestinian-Arab mayor of Jerusalem (including West Jerusalem) who held this position coupled with real authority.Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948, p 84, Hillel Cohen - 2008 Career Khalidi was well educated and before his involvement in politics had a career as a judge.New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State, edited by Laurence Jay Silberstein, 1991 In response to rumours of Haifa mayor Hasan Bey Shukri's perceived collaboration with Zionism, Khalidi said to Daniel Auster: "We must recognise the facts; the Zionists have migrated to this country, become citizens, have become Palestinians, and they cannot be thrown into the sea. Likewise, some of them have bought land and received deeds in exchange for money and we must recognise them. There is no point in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Zionists
The General Zionists ( he, הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים, translit. ''HaTzionim HaKlaliym'') were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann and their views were largely colored by central European culture. Their political arm is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud. History General Zionism initially referred to the beliefs of the majority of members of the Zionist Organization (ZO) who had not joined a specific faction or party and belonged to their countrywide Zionist organizations only. The term was first used at the 1907 Zionist Congress to describe the delegates who were neither affiliated with Labor Zionism nor religious Zionism. In 1922, various non-aligned groups and individuals established the Organization of General Zionists as a non-ideological party within the Zionist Organization (later the World Zionist Organization) at a time when the Zionist movement wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Auster
Daniel Auster ( he, דניאל אוסטר , 7 May 1893 – 15 January 1963) was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of Mandatory Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem after Israeli independence. Biography Daniel Auster was born in Kniahynyn, a Galician town that is now a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He immigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine prior to World War I after finishing his law studies at the university in Vienna, Austria, from which he graduated in 1914. He initially settled in Haifa and taught German at the Reali School. He first served at the Austrian expeditionary force headquarters in Damascus, assisting Arthur Ruppin in sending financial help from Constantinople to the starving Yishuv. In 1919, he became Secretary of the Legal Department of the Zionist Commission in Jerusalem. He became Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Husayn al-Khalidi in 1936. In 1937, he became the first Jewish mayor of Jer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reform Party (Palestine)
The Reform Party (or ''Hizb-al-Islah'') was established by Husayn al-Khalidi in Palestine on 23 June 1935. At the time of the party's formation, al-Khalidi was mayor of Jerusalem. It did not have a large following outside Jerusalem but its views were widely published in the Arab press. Its program called for freedom for Palestine, self-government, welfare for farmers and workers, encouragement of education and opposition to a Jewish national home. From its formation on 25 April 1937, al-Khalidi was a member of the Arab Higher Committee as the party's representative.''Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine, 1945-1948: 1945-1948'', by Haim Levenberg, Routledge, 1993, p. 7 On 1 October 1937, following disturbances and violence during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate administration outlawed the AHC and several other Arab political parties and arrested a number of Arab political leaders. The Reform Party was one of the parties dissolved and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husayn Al-Khalidi
Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi ( ar, حسين فخري الخالدي, , 1895 – 6 February 1962) was mayor of Jerusalem from 1934 to 1937 and the 13th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1957. On 23 June 1935 Khalidi founded the Reform Party and was subsequently the party's representative to the Arab Higher Committee. On 1 October 1937, amid the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate administration outlawed the AHC and several Arab political parties and arrested a number of Arab political leaders. The Reform Party was dissolved and Khalidi was one of the leaders arrested.''A Survey of Palestine - prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.'' Reprinted 1991 by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington. Volume II. . p.949 He was removed as mayor of Jerusalem and deported to the Seychelles, together with four other Arab nationalist political leaders. He was released in December 1938 to enable him to take part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussein Khalidi Portrait
Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or "beautiful". It is commonly given as a male given name, particularly among Shias. In Persian language contexts, the transliterations ''Ḥosayn, Hosayn,'' or ''Hossein'' are sometimes used. In the transliteration of Indo-Aryan languages, the forms "Hussain" or "Hossain" may be used. Other variants include ''Husein'', ''Husejin'', ''Husejn'', ''Husain'', ''Hussin'', ''Hussain'', ''Husayin'', ''Hussayin'', ''Hüseyin'', ''Husseyin'', ''Huseyn'', ''Hossain'', ''Hosein'', ''Husseyn'' (etc.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, which follows a standardized way for transliterating Arabic names, used the form "Ḥusain" in its first edition and "Ḥusayn" in its second and third editions. This name was not used in the pre-Islamic period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Defence Party (Mandatory Palestine)
The National Defense Party ( ar, حزب الدفاع الوطني ''Ḥizb al-Difāʿ al-Waṭanī'') was founded by Raghib al-Nashashibi in the British Mandate of Palestine in December 1934. The party was regarded as less extreme than the more popular Palestine Arab Party. Its program called for an independent Palestine with an Arab majority and rejection of the Balfour Declaration. The party was represented on the first Arab Higher Committee, 26 April 1936, but withdrew in early July 1937. It managed to avoid being banned when all the other Palestinian Arab nationalist parties were suppressed by the authorities beginning in October 1937. The party actively assisted the British during the Arab Revolt and were regarded as collaborators and subject to attacks and assassinations. The second Arab Higher Committee tried to exclude members of the NDP from being included in the Palestinian Arab delegation to the 1939 Round Table Conference. A compromise was reached and Raghib al-Nashashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghib Al-Nashashibi
Raghib al-Nashashibi ( ar, راغب النشاشيبي, ) (1881–1951), CBE (hon), was a wealthy landowner and public figure during the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate and the Jordanian administration. He was a member of the Nashashibi clan, one of the most influential families in Palestine, and mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1934. Background Nashashibi graduated from Istanbul University and became Jerusalem's District Engineer. The Nashashibis were one of the oldest and most influential Jerusalem families, and historical rivals of the Husayni family. Political career Nashashibi succeeded Musa Kazim al-Husayni as mayor of Jerusalem in 1920, serving in 1927 with Haym Salomon and Jacob Faradj, who were elected as vice-mayors. He was a leading opponent of the Husayni family in Palestine. In 1937 he secretly favoured union with Transjordan. Nashashibi was a founding member of the Arab Higher Committee and a leader of the National Defence Party. In August 1949 he was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghib Al-Nashashibi22
Ragheb or Raghib is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: *Ragheb Aga (born 1984), Kenyan cricketer * Raghib Ahsan, politician and member of the Constituent Assembly of India *Ragheb Alama (born 1962), Lebanese singer, dancer, composer, television personality, philanthropist * Raghib Allie-Brennan (born 1991), American politician and former political aide * Raghib al-Alami, the mayor of Gaza City between 1965 and 1970 * Ali Abu Al-Ragheb (born 1946), the 33rd Prime Minister of Jordan *Al-Raghib al-Isfahani, eleventh-century Muslim scholar of Qur'anic exegesis and the Arabic language *Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881–1951), CBE (hon), was a wealthy landowner and public figure *Ragheb Harb (1952–1984), Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric *Raghib Ismail (born 1969), American retired player of American and Canadian football * Ragheb Moftah (1898–2001), Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage *Raghib Pasha (1819–1884), Greek Ottoman polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
