Mayor of Jerusalem

Mayor of the City of Jerusalem
Emblem of the Mayor
Incumbent Nir Barkat since November 11, 2008
Residence	1 Safra Square, Jerusalem
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Musa al-Alami
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, 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.

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.^[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
• 1863–1867 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani^[3][4]
• 1867 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi^[3]
• 1867–1869 — Abdelrahman al-Dajani.^[3]
• 1869 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī.^[3]
• 1869–1870 — Abd al-Salām.^[3]
• 1870–1876 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī.^[3]
• Triumvirate 1876–1877 — Abd al-Qādir al-Khalīlī Abū l-Hudā/'Umar al-Ḥusaynī 'Abd al-Salām Paşa al Ḥusaynī/Salīm Shākir al-Ḥusaynī.^[3]
• 1876–1877 — Shaḥāda Faydallāh al-'Alamī.^[3]
• 1877–1878 — Rafadulo Astiriyadis Effendi^[3]
• 1878–1879 — Yusuf Ziya Paşa al-Khālīdī.^[3]
• 1879–1882 — Mūsā Faydī al-'Alamī^[3]
• 1882–1897 — Ḥusayn Salīm Paşa al Ḥusaynī^[3]
• Yaseen Khaldee^[5]
• 1897–1899 — Yaseen Khaldee
• 1899–1907 — Yousef Al-Khalidi^[6]
• 1907–1909 — Faidi al-Alami^[6]
• 1909–1917 — Hussein al-Husayni
• 1917–1918 — Aref al-Dajani^[4]
• 1918–1920 — Musa al-Husayni

Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948)

	Name		Term start	Term end	Party
1		Raghib al-Nashashibi	1920	1934	National Defence Party
2		Husayn al-Khalidi	1934	1937	Reform Party
3		Daniel Auster	1937	1938	General Zionists
4		Mustafa al-Khalidi	1938	1944	National Defence Party
(3)		Daniel Auster[7]	1944	1945	General Zionists
5		City Council's committee	1945	1948	Various

State of Israel (1948–present)

Mayors of Jerusalem (Israel) 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 1993 Rafi then Labor Party Alignment Coalition 1965 – 1969 Labor - Alignment - Mapam 1969 – 1993 7 Ehud Olmert 1993 2003 Likud Likud 1993 – 2003 8 Uri Lupolianski 2003 2008 Degel HaTorah United Torah Judaism - Degel HaTorah - Agudat Yisrael 2003 – 2008 9 Nir Barkat 2008 Incumbent Independent Likud - Independents From 2008

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 5 City Council's committee 1955 1957 Independents 6 Ruhi al-Khatib 1957 1967[8] Independent

See also

• History of Jerusalem
• 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 0-415-28955-6
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. Johann Büssow,Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872–1908, Brill, 2011 p. 554.
4. Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, 'The next Palestinian revolution, as seen through the eyes of a moderate scholar,' at Haaretz 14 June 2013
5. Lydia Mamreov-Mountford, The Kaiser in Jerusalem, New York Times, 27 November 1898
6. 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
7. He was Acting Mayor of Jerusalem, after Mustafa al-Khalidi's death in 1944.
8. 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