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Daniel Auster

Daniel Auster

Daniel Auster (Hebrew: דניאל אוסטר‎, 1893-1962) was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of the British Mandate of Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem under an independent State of Israel. Before that, he was Deputy Mayor under Raghib Nashashibi. He was also a member of the National Assembly for the General Zionists party and a signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence. He was against the internationalization of Jerusalem and presented his views on this matter to the United Nations in 1947.

v • d • e Mayors of Jerusalem

Ottoman Empire (1517–1917)	Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–82) • Salim al-Husayni (1882–97) • Yousef al-Khalidi (1899–1907) • Faidi al-Alami (1907–09) • Hussein al-Husayni (1909–17)

British Mandate of Palestine (1917–48)	Aref al-Dajani (1917–18) • Musa al-Husayni (1918–20) • Raghib Nashashibi (1920–34) • Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–37) • Daniel Auster (1937–38) • Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–44) • Daniel Auster (1944–45)

West Jerusalem, Israel (1949–67)	Daniel Auster (1949–50) • Zalman Shragai (1951–52) • Yitzhak Kariv (1952–55) • Gershon Agron (1955–59) • Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–65) • Teddy Kollek (1965–67)

East Jerusalem, Jordan (1949–67)	Anwar al-Khatib (1948–50) • Aref al-Aref (1950–51) • Hannah Atallah (1951–52) • Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) • Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67) • Amir al-Majaj (1967–99) (titular)

Israel (1967–)	Teddy Kollek (1967–93) • Ehud Olmert (1993–2003) • Uri Lupoliansky (2003–08) • Nir Barkat (2008–)

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