Sheikh Muhammad Ali Ja'abari (Arabic: الشيخ محمد علي الجعبري 1900–1980) was the long-serving mayor of the Palestinian city of Hebron, appointed by Jordan, from 1948 to 1976.
[1] Sheikh Muhammad ali Ja'abari represented Hebron at the Fourth Conference of the Arab Mayors of Palestine in 1945, hosted in Gaza.
[2] After Israel occupied the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War, he proposed that Israel only remain in power for five years after which the Palestinians would reserve the right of self-determination.
Apparently, it had been agreed with Israel that he would serve as the Prime Minister of a new Palestinian state.
[5] Throughout the 1970s, Ja'abari was member of various Jordanian cabinets,[1] and held the portfolio of Minister of Justice in 1955, 1958, 1959 and 1960-1961.