Jerusalem:
Mayors of Jerusalem

(1899 - Present)

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*- Daniel Auster was appointed mayor by the British High Commissionerafter the death of Mustafa Al-Khalidi in 1944 . The Jewish Agency demanded a Jewish mayor, but the Muslims wanted a Muslim mayor, as had been the practice since 1877. From 1945 until the end of the mandate a mayor and two deputy mayors were appointed by the British. Auster was Deputy Mayor until the death of Al-Khalidi. See: Bovis, Eugene H. The Jerusalem Question. Hoover Policy Study No. 1. 1971. p. 33.
**- From 1945 until the end of the mandate a mayor and two deputy mayors were appointed by the British. See: Bovis, Eugene H. The Jerusalem Question. Hoover Policy Study No. 1. 1971. p. 33.
***- The municipal law was ammended in 1955, appointing two additional members to the council and reappointing Aref Al-Aref as mayor for a few months. (PASSIA)

Sources: World Statesman; Bovis, Eugene H. The Jerusalem Question. Hoover Institution Studies 29 (Policy 1), 1971; Gutman, Matthew. "New Jerusalem mayor stirs anxiety among the city's secular population." JTA. (February 18, 2003); PASSIA; The Jerusalem Municipality