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Minutes of the Arab Municipal Council of Jerusalem

Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 132) - 1954-07-13

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Reference JM-AIY/B936-6/1954-07-13
Title Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 132) - 1954-07-13
Dates 1954-07-13
Dates Start 1954-07-13
Dates End 1954-07-13
Level of description Item
Extend and medium Number of pages: 10

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

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Description Attendance:
Hanna ‘Atallah (acting chair),
‘Arif al-‘Arif,
Fou’ad Muhie al-Din al-Nashashibi,
Anton Lawrence,
Dr. Amin Majj,
Ruhi al-Khatib,
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:
Omar al-Wa’ari,
Dr. George Farah.

Topics:
Approval of the decisions of the previous meeting no. 131 - p. 1;
The current municipal boundaries of Jerusalem and the number of members that make up the council - p. 1;
The case of the mentally ill in the city - pp. 1-2;
Recommendations of the administrative and financial committee on 21/6/1954: request of Rasim Abu ‘Eid to be exempted from paying the crafts tax due on the bazaar for the year 50/1951, request of the chief physician to appoint a midwife at the expense of the municipality, requests for exemption from paying the municipal property tax, reducing porter fees, request of Ra’ouf Muhammad Abdallah to be appointed to the position vacated following the dismissal of Nikolai Svyatovskovsky, request of Kazem al-Sibasi to be paid compensation for his previous services - pp. 2-6;
Recommendations of the administrative and financial committee on 8/7/54: the municipality budget proposal for the year 54/1955 - p. 6;
Letter from the director of the Council of Reconstruction on the certification of the surety solvency of the Waqf of al-Qameea’ 'family in Jerusalem - p.7;
Sewers of Wadi al-Joz – p. 7;
Comments of the city engineer on the report of the head of the fire brigade - p. 8;
Request of the Jerusalem district commander for water supply for the proposed police station in Ras al-‘Amud – p. 8;
Request of the contractor of the vegetable market fee obligation - pp. 8-9;
License for al-Kalouti’s car to transport meat from the municipality slaughterhouse - p. 9;
The Arab Child House Foundation - p. 9;
The proposal of the member Ruhi al-Khatib to revive Jerusalem - p. 9;
Request of the water director to buy Cylinders for water motors in ‘Ain Fara - p. 10;
Establishing a vegetable market in Wadi al-Joz – p. 10;
Establishing a public bus terminal on al-Adhamiyyah land in Herod’s Gate - p. 10, emergency reserves - p. 11;
City engineer report on the work progress of the municipality projects - p. 11.

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/meeting-of-the-municipal-council-n-132-1954-07-13?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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