Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/B936-9/1956-10-02 |
Title | Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 62) - 1956-10-02 |
Dates | 1956-10-02 |
Dates Start | 1956-10-02 |
Dates End | 1956-10-02 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | Number of pages: 22 |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Arab Municipality of Jerusalem (AMJ) |
Description | Attendance: Dr. Amin Majj (acting chair), Yusif al-Najar, ‘Abd al-Muhssin Abu Meizar, Omar al-Wa’ari, Ruhi al-Khatib, Dr. George Farah, Fou’ad Muhie al-Din al-Nashashibi, Nihad Abu Gharbieh, Mattia Marom, Salah al-Din Jarallah (secretary), Anton Safieh (city clerk and head of finance) Absenteeism: Muhie al-Din al-‘Asali, Fayez al-‘Alami, Hussein ‘Abdeen Topics: Recommendations of the education and social affairs committee on 23/8/56 pp. 1-3; Cases of compensation for individuals - pp. 3-9; Request of UNICEF to provide it with a thousand different photos showing places of an archaeological nature – p. 10; Request for compensation from the animal market fee’s contractors – p. 10; Delivery of water to the National Guard camp in Sheikh Jarrah at the municipality’s expense – p. 10; Al-Thowry road – p. 11; The urinal in al-Wad road near the Armenian Catholic Church - p.11; Paying for the land of al-Khalili Waqf that the municipality acquired in Wadi al-Joz - p. 12; The city engineer’s report on the costs of constructing a sidewalk on the Prophets road - Musrara - pp. 12-13; Benefits for employees of vegetable market fee collection - p. 13; Bylaw bill of the Market for Vegetables, Grain and Other Goods’ fees for the year 1956 - pp. 13-16; Borrowing an amount of ten thousand dinars to create sidewalks in the city streets - p. 17; Report of the head of the water department on the costs of delivering Suliman Pools’ water to Jerusalem - p. 17; Report of the head of the water department on wells in the houses that will constructed in the future - p. 17; Report of the head of the finance department on cashing some checks issued by the municipality during the mandate period for some employees and charitable institutions - pp. 17-18; Report of the head of the finance department regarding annual and sick leave for municipal workers – p. 18; The issue of secondment of Mufid al-Nashashibi, the health engineer, to UNRWA - p. 19; Repairs at Silwan elementary school - pp. 19-20; Request of ‘Awni Omar al-Husseini to construct a petrol and diesel pump within the bus terminal on al-Adhamiyyah land – p. 20; The gaps inside the city wall at Damascus Gate and Herod’s Gate - pp. 20-21; Request of the contractors to supply bags to the municipality - p. 21; Letter of Khalil Totah and his partners regarding the request to move from store no. 14 to store no. 15 in the vegetable market - pp. 21-22; Subscription to al-Jamhour al-‘Arabi newspaper - p. 22; Establishing a toilet unit in the National Guard camp in the pool of Israel and connecting the water network – p. 22 |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/meeting-of-the-municipal-council-n-62-1956-10-02?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 |