A demand that the Palestine Government hold elections immediately for a Jerusalem municipal council was voiced today by the Jewish community council and the Agudas Israel in a joint memorandum to the District Commissioner.
The memorandum asked that an elections committee based on the proportion of the Jews and Arabs in the city’s population be appointed to conduct the elections, and, in the meantime, a temporary council should be appointed on the same proportional basis.
The municipal council was dissolved last year following the inability of the Jews and Arabs to agree on the Jerusalem mayoralty. The Jews insisted that a Jew should be mayor, since the majority of the city’s population are Jews, while the Arabs maintained that the mayor of Jerusalem had always been an Arab.
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