Raghib al-Nashashibi

Raghib al-Nashashibi (Arabic: راغب النشاشيبي, Ragheb al-Nashashibī) (1881–1951), CBE (hon),[1] was a Palestinian public figure and wealthy landowner during the Ottoman Empire,[2] the British Mandate and the Jordanian administration.

He was a member of the Nashashibi clan, one of the most influential families in Palestine, and mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1935.

[11] Nashashibi was a founding member of the Arab Higher Committee and a leader of the National Defence Party.

He subsequently returned to the West Bank,[5] and was appointed head of the new Jordanian ministry for refugees and rehabilitation in August 1949.

[12] Nasashibi died in April 1951 of Illness at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem.

King George Street in Jerusalem, dedicated in the presence of Mayor al-Nashashibi, 1924