Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/B936-7/1955-10-04 |
Title | Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 2) - 1955-10-04 |
Dates | 1955-10-04 |
Dates Start | 1955-10-04 |
Dates End | 1955-10-04 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | Number of pages: 8 |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Arab Municipality of Jerusalem (AMJ) |
Description | Attendance: ‘Arif al-‘Arif (chair), Yusif al-Najar, Omar al-Wa’ari, Ruhi al-Khatib, Hussein ‘Abdeen, Nihad Abu Gharbieh, Dr. Amin Majj, ‘Abd al-Muhssin Abu Meizar, Muhammad Tahir al-Daoudi, Fayez al-‘Alami, Fou’ad Muhie al-Din al-Nashashibi, Salah al-Din Jarallah (secretary), Anton Safieh (city clerk and head of finance) Topics: Approval of the decisions of the previous meetings no. 1 - p. 1; Recommendations of the health and water committee on 1/10/1955 and the report of the head of the water department - pp. 1-2; Recommendations of the bid committee on 1/10/1955: bids for the supply of diesel, bids for the construction of rooms for new motors and pumps for the ‘Ain Fara water project, bids for the supply of 4 new pumps for the ‘Ain Fara water project - pp. 2-4; Recommendations of the legal committee on 2/10/1955: Letter of advocate Ibrahim al-Kilani on behalf of his client, Ghaleb al-Khalidi, trustee of the Waqf of Sheikh Muhammad al-Khalili regarding paying the price of the Waqf land that the municipality appropriated near the vegetable market in Wadi al-Joz, letter of advocate Ibrahim Bakr on behalf of his client, ‘Arif al-Najjar, regarding the bus terminal project on al-Adhamiyyah land, discussion of the issue of the municipality's lawyer, letter of the Jerusalem district’s education inspector regarding the education tax system project, request of Geries Khoury regarding the late former employee Isshaq George - pp. 4-6; Request of Muhammad Mahmmoud Abu Gharbieh to rent store number 17 in the vegetable market – p. 6; Letter of the Jerusalem governor regarding the building of the House of Justice in Jerusalem - p. 7; Requests of some former municipality employees to be paid advances from their owed compensation for their previous services - p. 7; Clarification from council member Yusif al-Najar regarding the allocations for the cooling warehouses project - pp. 7-8; Request of the inspector Amin Shoubel to give him an advance from his salary - p. 8; Egypt’s position on the issue of armaments - p. 8 |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/meeting-of-the-municipal-council-n-2-1955-10-04?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 |