Issa Basil Bandak (Arabic: عيسى باسل البندك; 1891 – May 1984) was a Palestinian/Jordanian politician who served as Jordanian ambassador to Spain and commissioner to Chile after serving as Mayor of Bethlehem and appearing as part of the Jordanian delegation to the UN in 1950.

His plans [citation needed] to study medicine in Montpellier were stymied by the outbreak of World War I; instead, Bandak studied telegraph intelligence and became Director of the Telegraph Service in Syria, Jordan and Jerusalem during Ottoman rule until 1917.

He produced the Bethlehem newspaper with Hanna Al-Issa in 1919 and the Sawt Ash-Sha'b magazine[2] in 1922 (which continued to be published until 1957).

[4] Bandak was one of the co-founders of the Reform Party (initiated by Husayn al-Khalidi) in 1935; served as the thirteenth mayor of Bethlehem from 1933 to 1938.

[4] In 1943, he was nominated (together with Nicola Khouri and Yacoub Jmei'an) by the Arab Orthodox Committee to meet with Farouk of Egypt and Ibn Saud to explain the "Palestine Question" and was appointed again as mayor of Bethlehem from 1946 to 18 October 1951.