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Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem

Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 109) - 1953-12-22

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Reference JM-AIY/B936-5/1953-12-22
Title Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 109) - 1953-12-22
Dates 1953-12-22
Dates Start 1953-12-22
Dates End 1953-12-22
Level of description Item
Extend and medium Number of pages: 6

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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Arab Municipality of Jerusalem (AMJ)

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Description Attendance:
Omar al-Wa’ari (chair),
Hanna ‘Atallah,
Fou’ad Muhie al-Din al-Nashashibi,
Anton Lawrence,
Fayez al-‘Alami,
Rashid al-Haddad,
Dr. Salim M’atouq,
Nihad Abu Gharbieh,
Salah al-Din Jarallah (secretary),
Anton Safieh (city clerk and head of finance).

Absenteeism:
‘Arif al-‘Arif,
Dr. George Farah,
Dr. Amin Majj,
Ruhi al-Khatib.

Topics:
Approval of the decisions of the previous meeting no. 108 - p. 1;
Condolences on the death of the mother of mayor deputy Hanna ‘Atallah - p. 1;
Proposal of Ruhi al-Khatib to rent a section of the teachers college at Herod’s Gate to convert it into municipal offices - p. 1;
Recommendations of the administrative and financial committee on 17/12/1953: Jerusalem municipality budget for the year 1954/53, requesting exemption from paying the municipality tax on property - pp. 1-2;
Letter of the finance accountant regarding the nomination of three persons to elect a member to participate in the estimation process - p. 2;
Letter of the Jerusalem district inspector on 31/12/53 regarding the contribution of the municipalities in securing students’ uniforms - p. 3;
Request of Hanna ‘Atallah to pay his fees in the arbitration case in the dispute between the Jerusalem municipality and the Ramallah and al-Bireh municipalities regarding water prices - p. 3;
Request of Hanna ‘Atallah to benefit from the experience of Pickholm in improving water resources in Jerusalem - p. 3;
Request of Hanna ‘Atallah regarding renting the animals isolation building in the yard of the municipal slaughterhouse in Shu’fat to the People's Animal Pharmacies Association - pp. 3-4;
The request of Haider al-Shihabi to pay his late wages - p. 4;
Reconsidering the expansion of the powers of the municipality lawyer to represent in the municipality cases - p. 4;
Letter of the Jerusalem district governor on 6/12/53 regarding the commencement of the municipality in building a new school from the balance of the funds granted by the previous Palestinian government - pp. 4-5;
Recommendations of the roads, public works and bids committee on 12/12/53: bids for excavations in al-Adhamiyyah land, bids for the supply of water pipes - p. 5;
The request of Fayez al-‘Alami to transfer the storage license in Damascus Gate to Emile Zananiri - pp. 5-6.

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/meeting-of-the-municipal-council-n-109-1953-12-22?sf_culture=en

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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).

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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).

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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).

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Conditions governing access Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)

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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.

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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

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