Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/B937-5/1962-04-03 |
Title | Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 122) - 1962-04-03 |
Dates | 1962-04-03 |
Dates Start | 1962-04-03 |
Dates End | 1962-04-03 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | Number of pages: 17 |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Arab Municipality of Jerusalem (AMJ) |
Description | Attendance: Dr. Amin Majj (deputy, chair), Dr. George Farah, Dr. Subhi Ghosheh, Yusif al-Najar, ‘Ali al-Tazeez, Omar al-Wa’ari, Faeq Barakat, Muhammad Taher al-Daoudi, ‘Abd al-Mughni al-Natsheh, Mattia Marom, Salah al-Din Jarallah (secretary), Anton Safieh (city clerk and head of finance) Absenteeism: Ruhi al-Khatib (mayor), Nihad Abu Gharbieh Topics: Approval of the decisions of the previous meeting no. 121 - p. 1; Water issues - p. 1; Sewers of the Mount of Olives Hotel - pp. 1-2; Expenses of public sewage construction in Sheikh Jarrah - the heirs of the late Tawfiq Murad - pp. 2-3; Memorandum of the head of the health affairs department on the decision to expropriate the shops located on both sides of Khan al-Sultan toilet door - p. 3; Payment of bonus to water line inspectors - p. 4; Stores 4 and 5 in the vegetable market - pp. 4-5; Suliman pools rental agreement - p. 5; Removing the rubble covering the old market, located east of Souk al-‘Attarin - pp. 5-6; Letter of the lawyer Anwar al-Khatib, on behalf of his client, Moath Istanbouli, to pay his retirement pension - pp. 6-7; The two bills submitted by the management of the Ambassador Hotel - p. 7; The case delivering water to violators of urban planning regulation - pp. 7-8; Helping poor students with paying their exam fees - p. 8; Civil defence branch in Jerusalem - pp. 8-9; Deportation of the Roma, who live in unsanitary sheds in the al-Burj area in Bab Hutta – p. 9; Expansion of Port Said (al-Zahra) road - pp. 9-10; The wall of the house of Ghalib Younes al-Husseini – p. 10; Expanding Nablus road to its planned width according to the approved plans – p. 10; Recommendations of the bids committee on 25/3/1962: bids for insuring some workers and employees of the municipality and its properties, bids for the supply of construction materials to the engineering department during the fiscal year 63/62, bids for the supply of stones for the wall of Jaffa Gate square - pp. 10-13; The events of the public auction in the warehouses of the municipality held on 26/3/1962 - pp. 14-16; Renewal of an agreement to lease a portion of the Jerusalem cinema building to make it a temporary library for the municipality – p. 17; Ragheb al-Kalouti and his brothers gave up their water line extending about 300 meters outside the boundaries of the municipality to the east of the municipal slaughterhouse on the ‘Anata road - p. 17; Rent of store number 16 in the vegetable market - p. 17 |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/meeting-of-the-municipal-council-n-122-1962-04-03?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-AIY/B936-1-B938-9 |
Title | Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem |
Covering dates | 1948-07-02-1967-07-24 |
Dates Start | 1948-07-02 |
Dates End | 1967-07-24 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | 774 minutes of meetings split in 26 folders and contained in three boxes (B936 to B938). |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Arab Municipality of Jerusalem (AMJ) |
Archival history | The minutes of meetings were originally located in the Arab Municipality building in folders identified by reference codes. After the dissolution of the Arab Municipality, those documents were moved to the Jerusalem Municipality Archive and the current reference codes were added, replacing the old ones when referring to these minutes. The first part of this codification refers to the box containing the document and the second one to the number of the folder inside this box (e.g. B937-2 refers to the second folder of the box B937). |
Description | This fonds consists in the minutes of meetings of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem from its creation in 1948 to its dissolution in 1967. In most cases, one minute matches one meeting, except for one relating to meetings held during three days in a row (1961-04-16 to 1961-04-18 - B937-3). The lacks observed in the original numbers given to these meetings and documents point out that one minute is missing for the beginning of summer 1955 and another one for autumn 1955 (B936-7). Moreover, the minutes of the meetings held between January 1958 and December 1959 could not be found. Therefore, a chronological gap exists between the folders B936-11 and B937-1. Order numbers were given by the Arab Municipality itself to each of these meetings, apparently starting back from 1 when a new council was composed, except for opening sessions and irregular meetings which were named as such and not counted. From December 1963, confidential debates could occur during a meeting. In this case, two minutes were issued with the same meeting order number: a regular one and a confidential one (e.g. minutes of the meeting of the Municipal Council held on 1963-12-11 – B938-2). The fonds allows to retrace not only the creation of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem after 1948, but also the relations established with other political, social, religious institutions, its humanitarian action and its ordinary management until the 1967 war. |
Accruals | No further accruals are expected. |
System of arrangement | Original arrangement according to chronological order. After the first period of one year and a half (the first meeting was held in July 1948 – B936-1), from 1950 to 1955, each folder matches one year (B936-2 to B936-7). The following folders match half a year approximatively, with a transition between one folder and the next between June and August or at the close of the year. This arrangement does not take account of the changes known by the Arab Municipal Council in its composition and its denomination. Therefore, it is does not discriminate the series established by the meeting order numbers either. This archival description follow this intellectual and physical arrangement consisting in a sole series. As some folders cover periods in which the Municipal Council changed its denomination, the titles stated for the files (i.e. folders) do no mention it. The consecutives names are indicated in the items titles (see the authority record for their chronology). |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Publication notes | Haneen Naamneh (2021) Navigating the Time of Arab Jerusalem: A Perspective from Within, Journal of Palestine Studies, 50:3, 52-55; Haneen Naamneh, “A Municipality Seeking Refuge: Jerusalem Municipality in 1948,” Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 77 (Spring 2019): pp. 110–21, https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/235018; Ali Jarbawi, “Al-baladiyyat al-filastiniyya: Min al-nash’at hatta ‘am 1967” [Palestinian municipalities: From establishment to 1967], Shu’un Filastiniyya, nos. 221–22 (1991): pp. 49–72; Maria Chiara Rioli (2020), A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956, Brill: p. 191. |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | Archival description prepared in 2021, entered on 2022-09-29. |
Archivist's notes | Archival description prepared by Archival City and DHMoRe. Some fields are filled in English, but not in Arabic. In these cases, when visualizing the archival descriptions in Arabic, the punctuation in the fields in English may be incorrect, due to technical failures of the software. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/minutes-of-the-arab-municipal-council-of-jerusalem |