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Mayor of Jerusalem

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Term length
  
5 years

Formation
  
1867

Inaugural holder
  
Musa al-Alami

Website
  
Office of the Mayor

Mayor of Jerusalem

Residence
  
1 Safra Square, Jerusalem

The Mayor of the City of Jerusalem is head of the executive branch of the political system in Jerusalem, 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.

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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.

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: 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. 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 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
  • 1863–1867 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani
  • 1867 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi
  • 1867–1869 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani.
  • 1869 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī.
  • 1869–1870 — Abd al-Salām.
  • 1870–1876 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī.
  • Triumvirate 1876–1877 — Abd al-Qādir al-Khalīlī Abū l-Hudā/'Umar al-Ḥusaynī 'Abd al-Salām Paşa al Ḥusaynī/Salīm Shākir al-Ḥusaynī.
  • 1876–1877 — Shaḥāda Faydallāh al-'Alamī.
  • 1877–1878 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi
  • 1878–1879 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī.
  • 1879–1882 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī
  • 1882–1897 — Ḥusayn Salīm Paşa al Ḥusaynī
  • Yaseen Khaldee
  • 1897–1899 — Yaseen Khaldee
  • 1899–1907 — Yousef Al-Khalidi
  • 1907–1909 — Faidi al-Alami
  • 1909–1917 — Hussein al-Husayni
  • 1917–1918 — Aref al-Dajani
  • 1918–1920 — Musa al-Husayni
  • References

    Mayor of Jerusalem Wikipedia