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Fleur Hassan-Nahoum was born in London and grew up in Gibraltar.She is the daughter of Sir Joshua Hassan, who served as the first Mayor of Gibraltar and, later, also served as the first Chief Minister of Gibraltar, [3] and his second wife, Lady Marcelle Bensimon, [4] both of Moroccan and Portuguese Jewish origin.
Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia. It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East ; and shares borders with Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [ 21 ]
Stephen (Greek: Στέφανος, romanized: Stéphanos; c. AD 5 – c. 34) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. [2] According to the Acts of the Apostles, he was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who angered members of various synagogues by his teachings.
Mordechai Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania during the reign of the Russian Empire.He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1923. His labor career began in the Stonecutters' Union in 1935; he then rose through the ranks of the Histadrut, the Israeli trade union congress.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jerusalem City Hall offices in Safra Square, 2009 The Jerusalem Municipality, the seat of the Israeli municipal administration, consists of a number of buildings located on Jaffa Road in the city of Jerusalem. History The old British town hall and Barclays Bank, circa 1940 British Mandate town hall ...
Nir Barkat was raised in Jerusalem. [2] His father, Zalman, was a professor of physics at the Hebrew University.His great-grandfather came from Russia to Mandatory Palestine in the 1920s, and died in 1924.
The Jerusalem City Council was established in 1863 during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.From 1948 to 1967 two municipalities operated in the city: an Israeli municipality provided services to the western neighborhoods of the city and a Jordanian municipality to its eastern parts.
Moshe Lion, or Moshe Leon (Hebrew: משה ליאון, born 6 October 1961), is an Israeli politician who is currently the Mayor of Jerusalem.He previously served as a member of the Jerusalem City Council, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Chairman of the Israel Railways, and head of the Jerusalem Development Authority.