Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

Ottoman period:
Jerusalem municipal council (majlis baladiyya, meclis-i belediye) came into existence in the early 1860s. Jerusalem was, in fact, one of the very first cities within the Ottoman Empire to form a municipality, which was further consolidated after the Ottoman law on municipalities in 1877. From the 1880s onward, the municipal council was composed of nine to twelve members, elected for a renewable mandate of four years: there were generally six Muslims, two Christians, and one or two Jews on the council (depending on the period), in addition to a maximum of four ex officio members.

Mandate period:
Construction of the historical city hall building in 1930 (used until 1993)

From 1948: to be completed.

ISAAR (CPF), 2nd Edition, 2004.

Entry prepared on February 2017

Yasemin Avci, Falestin Naili and Vincent Lemire, "Publishing Jerusalem’s Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892-1917): A Turning Point for the City’s Historiography," Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 60 (2015), 110-119.

https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/en/Pages/default.aspx

LEMIRE (Vincent), « Histoire des réseaux techniques dans la municipalité ottomane de Jérusalem : Enjeux de souveraineté, conflits de pouvoirs, réseaux de mémoires », dans Denis BOCQUET et Samuel FETTAH (dir.), Réseaux techniques et conflits de pouvoir : les dynamiques historiques des villes contemporaines, Collection de l’École Française de Rome 374, École Française de Rome, 2007, p. 31-56.

LEMIRE (Vincent), Jérusalem 1900, la ville sainte à l’âge des possibles, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013, 251 p.

Author(s) : Maria Chiara Rioli