Mayor of Jerusalem
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP | Mayor of the City of Jerusalem | |
|---|---|
 Emblem of the Mayor | |
 Incumbent Nir Barkat since November 11, 2008 | |
| Residence | 1 Safra Square, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Term length | 5 years |
| Inaugural holder | Musa al-Alami Teddy Kollek (Present day Jeruslaem Municipality) |
| Formation | 1867 |
| Website | Office of the Mayor |
The Mayor of the City of Jerusalem is head of the executive branch of the political system in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem Municipality. 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 a large number of officials, including Directors who head city departments, and his or her deputy mayors.
Contents
1 History
2 List of Mayors of Jerusalem (1848–present)
2.1 Ottoman Empire (1848–1920)
2.2 Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)
2.3 Divided Jerusalem (1948–1967)
2.3.1 Mayors of West Jerusalem (Israel)
2.3.2 Mayors of East Jerusalem (Jordan)
2.4 Reunited Jerusalem (1967–present)
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
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.[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.
List of Mayors of Jerusalem (1848–present)
This is a list of mayors of Jerusalem in chronological order.
Ottoman Empire (1848–1920)
- 1848–1863 — Ahmad Agha Duzdar Al-Asali (official title: Governor of Jerusalem)
- 1863–1867 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani[3][4]
- 1867 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi[3] (acting)
- 1867–1869 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani[3]
- 1869 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī[3]
- 1869–1870 — Abd al-Salām Paşa al Ḥusaynī[3]
- 1870–1876 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī[3]
Triumvirate 1876–1877 — Abd al-Qādir al-Khalīlī Abū l-Hudā/'Umar 'Abd al-Salām Paşa al Ḥusaynī/Salīm Shākir al-Ḥusaynī.[3]- 1877 — Shaḥāda Faydallāh al-'Alamī[3]
- 1877–1878 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi[3] (acting)
- 1878–1879 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī[3]
- 1879–1881 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī[3]
- 1882–1897 — Ḥusayn Salīm Paşa al Ḥusaynī[3]
- 1897–1899 — Yaseen al-Khalidi[5]
- 1899–1906 — Yousef Al-Khalidi[6]
- 1906–1909 — Faidi al-Alami[6]
- 1909–1917 — Hussein al-Husayni
- 1917–1918 — Aref al-Dajani[4]
- 1918–1920 — Musa Kazim al-Husayni
Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)
| Name | Term start | Term end | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Raghib al-Nashashibi | 1920 | 1934 | National Defence Party | |
| 21 | Husayn al-Khalidi | 1934 | 1937 | Reform Party | |
| 22 | Daniel Auster | 1937 | 1938 | General Zionists | |
| 23 | Mustafa al-Khalidi | 1938 | 1944 | National Defence Party | |
| (22) | Daniel Auster[7] | 1944 | 1945 | General Zionists | |
| N/A | City Council's committee | 1945 | 1948 | Various | |
Divided Jerusalem (1948–1967)
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| Mayor of Jerusalem | Took office | Left office | Party | Coalition | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |  | Daniel Auster | 1948 | 1950 | General Zionists | General Zionists 1948 – 1950 | |
2 |  | Zalman Shragai | 1950 | 1952 | Hapoel HaMizrachi | United Religious Front 1950 – 1952 | |
3 |  | Yitzhak Kariv | 1952 | 1955 | Mizrachi | United Religious Front 1952 – 1955 | |
4 |  | Gershon Agron | 1955 | 1959 | Mapai | Mapai - Ahdut HaAvoda 1955 – 1959 | |
5 |  | Mordechai Ish-Shalom | 1959 | 1965 | Mapai | Mapai - Ahdut HaAvoda 1959 – 1965 | |
6 |  | Teddy Kollek | 1965 | 1967 | Rafi | Alignment Coalition 1965 – 1967 | |
Mayors of East Jerusalem (Jordan)
| Mayor of East Jerusalem | Took office | Left office | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |  | Anwar Khatib | 1948 | 1950 | Independent |
2 |  | Aref al-Aref | 1950 | 1951 | Independent |
3 | | Hannah Atallah | 1951 | 1952 | Independent |
4 |  | Omar Wa'ari | 1952 | 1955 | Independent |
N/A | | City Council's committee | 1955 | 1957 | Independents |
5 |  | Ruhi al-Khatib | 1957 | 1967[8] | Independent |
Reunited Jerusalem (1967–present)
| Mayor of Jerusalem | Took office | Left office | Party | Coalition | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 | | Teddy Kollek | 1967 | 1993 | Rafi then Labor Party | Alignment Coalition 1967 – 1969 | |
Labor - Alignment - Mapam 1969 – 1993 | |||||||
25 |  | Ehud Olmert | 1993 | 2003 | Likud | Likud 1993 – 2003 | |
26 |  | Uri Lupolianski | 2003 | 2008 | Degel HaTorah | United Torah Judaism - Degel HaTorah - Agudat Yisrael 2003 – 2008 | |
27 |  | Nir Barkat | 2008 | Incumbent | Independent | Likud - Independents From 2008 | |
See also
- History of Jerusalem
- List of people from Jerusalem
- Timeline of Jerusalem
References
^ Grenville, John Ashley Soames. A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century; Routledge, 2005. pg. 456. .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
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^ 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
^ abcdefghijkl Johann Büssow,Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872–1908, Brill, 2011 p. 554.
^ ab Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, 'The next Palestinian revolution, as seen through the eyes of a moderate scholar,' at Haaretz 14 June 2013
^ Lydia Mamreov-Mountford, The Kaiser in Jerusalem, New York Times, 27 November 1898
^ ab According to Bernard Wasserstein (1977): "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: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4282641
^ He was Acting Mayor of Jerusalem, after Mustafa al-Khalidi's death in 1944.
^ The office of Mayor of East Jerusalem was dissolved in 1967 after the Six-Day War and it has been titular since then. When al-Khatib died in 1994, he was succeeded by Amin al-Majaj (1994-1998), who was succeeded by Zaki al-Ghul (1999-present).
External links
- Mayors of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem at World Statesmen
Mayors of Jerusalem at City of Jerusalem