Ehud Olmert ; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert became Prime Minister on April 14, 2006 but had been exercising the powers of the office since they were transferred to him on January 4, 2006 after Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke. Olmert's title for that period was Acting Prime Minister. Olmert has previously been the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Finance minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, …

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek (May 27, 1911 - January 2 2007) was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, as well as founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989. After reluctantly running for a seventh term in 1993 at the age of 82, he lost to Likud candidate Ehud Olmert (now the Israeli prime minister). During his tenure Jerusalem developed into a modern city, especially after its reunification in 1967.

Uri Lupolianski (born 1951) is the current mayor of Jerusalem. He is a member of the United Torah Judaism party and is the first Haredi Jewish person to be elected to the position of mayor. Lupolianski was elected a Jerusalem City Council member in 1989. He has held the positions of lead Deputy Mayor, Chairperson of the Planning and Building committee and was responsible for the Family Services and Community Portfolio.

Gershon Agron (born Agronsky, 1894-1959) was an Israeli press pioneer and mayor of Jerusalem. He was born in the Ukraine but emigrated with his family to the USA soon after. During World War I he fought with the Jewish Legion in the area of present-day Israel (until 1918 part of the Ottoman Empire, from 1921-1947 the "British Mandate of Palestine".) Following stints as editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and correspondent for several British newspapers, …

Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881-1951) was a distinguished public figure and wealthy landowner under the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate and the Jordanian administration. Nashashibi graduated from Istanbul University and became Jerusalem's District Engineer. His family, the Nashashibis is one of the most influential and ancient of Jerusalem familes, and has historically been a rival to the Husayni family.

Musa Kazim al-Husayni (Jerusalem, 1850 - 1934) was nominated to several senior posts in the Ottoman administration. He was mayor of Jerusalem (1918-1920), chairman of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee and leader of the Palestinian national movement from 1922 until 1934. Husayni was a graduate from the Istanbul School of Administration and held many administrative positions (among others district Governor of Yemen, …

Aref al-Aref (1891-1973) was a Palestinian journalist, author and politician. He was born in Jerusalem in 1891. He studied in Istanbul and was conscripted into the Ottoman army in World War I. He was captured and spent three years in a prisoner of war camp in Siberia, from where he escaped after the Russian Revolution and went back to Palestine. He edited the first nationalist newspaper published in Palestine after World War I, Southern Syria Suriyya al Janubiyya, …

Yousef Dia Pasha al-Khalidi was a prominent Palestinian who played a major political role in the Ottoman Empire dominance period. He was born in 1829 in Jerusalem. He was elected to represent the Jerusalem district in the first "Ottoman Parliament" (1877), he became head of the "Jerusalem Municipality" in (1899), and died in 1907.

Musa Alami (1897-1984) was a prominent Palestinian nationalist and politician. Alami was born in the Musrara district of Jerusalem into a prominent family. His father was Mayor of Jerusalem Faidi al-Alami, his sister was married to Jamal al-Hussayni and he was the uncle of Serene Husseini Shahid. He was first taught at the school of the American Colony and at the French Ecole des Freres in Jaffa. During World War I Alami worked at the censorship office in Damascus.

Daniel Auster (1893-1962) was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of the British Mandate of Palestine, and the first mayor of Jerusalem under an independent State of Israel. Before that, he was Deputy Mayor under Raghib Nashashibi. He was also a member of the National Assembly for the General Zionists party, and a signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence.

Mordechai Ish-Shalom, (1902 - 1991), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was mayor of Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965. Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania and came to British 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.

"Ruhi al-Khatib" (1914-1994) was the mayor of Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) from 1957 to 1967. His term of service came to an end after the Israeli Defense Force took control of the city in 1967's Six Day War. Al-Khatib did not acknowledge his dismissal, but remained in Jerusalem and continued to work as director of the Arab Hotels Company and the Jerusalem Electric Company.

Shlomo Zalman Shragai (born 1899 - 1995) was an Israeli politician and Jerusalem first elected mayor. Shragai was born into an Polish Orthodox Jewish family in Gorzkowice in 1899. He then became active in the religious Zionist movement and settled in Palestine in 1924, already playing an important political role before Israel's founding in 1948. In 1950 he was elected mayor of Jerusalem, a position he held for two years.

Serene Husseini Shahid (French: Sirine Husseini Shahid, b. 1920) was born in Jerusalem as a member of the influential Husayni family. Her father was Jamal al-Husayni, her maternal grandfather was Mayor of Jerusalem Faidi al-Alami, and her maternal uncle was Musa al-Alami. She was educated at the American Friends School in Ramallah, later at the American University of Beirut. She married Dr Munib Shahib in 1944 and they settled in Beirut.

Husayin Fakhri al-Khalidi (1895-1962) was born in Jerusalem. He worked as medical doctor for the Department of Public Health in Aleppo. Khalidi was elected mayor of Jerusalem from 1934-1937. On 23 June, 1935 he founded the Reform Party and joined the Arab Higher Committee as its representative. Khalidi was exiled to the Seychelles Islands in 1937. He took part in the London Conference at St.