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Sector : Government Officials, Representatives
Head of the Jericho Conference of December 1948 which called for the unification of West Bank and Jordan. Held a seat in the upper chamber of the Jordan government in the 1950s; mayor of Hebron from 1948-76; proposed after the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in 1967 a transitional phase of 5 years with Israeli military redeployment after which Palestinians would exercise their right for self-determination; member of various Jordanian cabinets in the 1970s.Source