List of mayors of Jerusalem

Musa al-Husayni (1918–1920)

Mordechai Ish Shalom (1959-1965)

Ehud Olmert (1993–2003)

Uri Lupolianski

List of mayors of Jerusalem in chronological order.

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: the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem provided services to the western neighborhoods of the city and the Jordanian municipality of Al-Quds to its eastern parts.

By 1840, the Jewish community constituted the largest single religious group in the city.^[1] From the 1880s onward, the Jews constituted the majority within the city.^[2] However, it was only in 1937, under the British Mandate, that the first Jewish mayor was appointed.

Mayors of Jerusalem

• Musa al-Alami (Years unknown)
• Ahmad Agha Duzdar Al-Asali (1848–1863)
• Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–1882)
• Salim al-Husayni (1882–1897)
• ??? (1897–1899)
• Yousef Al-Khalidi (1899–1907)^[3]
• Faidi al-Alami (1907–1909)^[3]
• Hussein al-Husayni (1909–1917)
• Aref al-Dajani (1917–1918)
• Musa al-Husayni (1918–1920)
• Raghib Nashashibi (1920–1934)
• Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–1937)
• Daniel Auster (1937–1938)
• Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–1944)
• Daniel Auster (1944–1945)
• municipal committee (1945–1948)

Mayors of West Jerusalem

• military governor, Dov Yosef (1948–1949)
• Daniel Auster (1949–1950)
• Zalman Shragai (1951–1952)
• Yitzhak Kariv (1952–1955)
• Gershon Agron (1955–1959)
• Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–1965)
• Teddy Kollek (1965–1967)

Mayors of East Jerusalem

• Anwar Al-Khatib (1948–1950)
• Aref al-Aref (1950–1951)
• Hanna Atallah (1951–1952)
• Omar Wa'ari (1952–1955)
• municipal committee (1955–1957)
• Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–1967)

Titular Mayors of East Jerusalem

• Ruhi al-Khatib (1967–1994)
• Amin al-Majaj (1994–1998)^[4]
• Zaki Al-Ghul (1999-date)^[4]

Mayors of Israeli Jerusalem

Teddy Kollek

• Teddy Kollek (1967–1993)
• Ehud Olmert (1993–2003)
• Uri Lupolianski (2003–2008)
• Nir Barkat (2008–present)

See also

• Timeline of Jerusalem

References

1. ^ Grenville, John Ashley Soames. A history of the world from the 20th to the 21st century; Routledge, 2005. pg. 456. ISBN 0415289556
2. ^ Weiner, Justus Reid. Is Jerusalem Being "Judaized"?, Jewish Political Studies Review 15:1-2 (Spring 2003), citing Schmelz, U.O. "Modern Jerusalem's Demographic Evolution," Jewish Population Studies 20 (1987):9
3. ^ ^{a b} According to Bernard Wasserstein (1977) Al-'Alami may have been mayor from 1906. In 'Clipping the Claws of the Colonisers': Arab Officials in the Government of Palestine, 1917-48 "MUSA AL-'ALAMI was born in Jerusalem in 1897. His father, Faidi. Effendi al-'Alami, was a large landowner, Mayor of Jerusalem (1906-9)" Published in: Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 171-194, Publisher:Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4282641
4. ^ ^{a b} Klein, Menachem (2001). Jerusalem: The Contested City. New York University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780814747544. http://books.google.com/books?id=Mv7vz1CKuLgC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=%22Zaki+Al+Ghul%22#PPA199,M1. 

External links

• Mayors of Jerusalem
• Jerusalem at World Statesmen
• Mayors of Jerusalem at City of Jerusalem