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Jamil Othman Nasser is a Palestinian politician , Governor of the Jerusalem Governorate in the Palestinian National Authority (January 1996 - September 2008 ). [1]
Early life and schooling [ edit ]
He was born in the town of Silwan , Jerusalem District , on January 30, 1945 , and spent a large part of his early life in the city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley . He completed his secondary studies in the city of Jerusalem at the Coptic College, and moved from there to Beirut in 1965 to complete his university studies at Beirut Arab University , from which he graduated with a degree in law in 1970 . While studying in Beirut , he joined the Palestinian national liberation movement , Fatah .
The beginnings of political and social activity [ edit ]
He was one of the founders of the Agricultural Society in the city of Jericho and headed it for a period of time. He ran for and won the Jericho municipal elections as the youngest elected member in the West Bank at that time (on the list of the Palestinian National Front, which was supported by the Palestine Liberation Organization ) in 1976 , and assumed the presidency of the municipality for a short period after the death of its then-elected president, Abdul Aziz Al-Suwaiti , before the authorities The Israeli occupation expelled members of elected municipal councils and appointed others on their own in the early 1980s.
He ran for the Jordanian Bar Association Council elections in 1982 , and was elected president of the West Bank Bar Association (lawyers on strike - suspended from work before the Israeli courts due to the legitimacy of these courts) and deputy president of the Jordanian Bar Association. He was subsequently placed under house arrest in the city of Jericho , and was prohibited from leaving the city until 1988 .
The first (great) Intifada [ edit ]
With the beginning of the first intifada , Nasser was one of the leaders of the first rank in the Palestinian interior ( the occupied Palestinian territories ) - the western sector - in the Fatah movement. During the Great Intifada , he assumed the secretariat of the national institutions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization and other institutions), and he continued this position. The mission of the early nineties.
The 1990s [ edit ]
With the entry of the Palestinian National Authority into the Palestinian territories following the Oslo Declaration of Principles Agreement ( Oslo Accord ), he was appointed Director General of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior , and then in January 1996 he was appointed Governor of Jerusalem, as the first Governor of the Holy City since its occupation in 1967. By the Israelis , he was the first governor appointed in the Palestinian National Authority .
He was the first president of the Palestinian Hajj and Umrah Authority , which is responsible for the Hajj season for Palestinian pilgrims after it was separated from the Ministry of Endowments in the Palestinian National Authority .
Nasser was the godfather of the process of gathering the faculties of Al-Quds University into the main campus in Abu Dis , east of Jerusalem , and extending the control of the Palestine Liberation Organization over the institution in the late nineties. He considered the university to be the largest and most worthy institution in the city of Jerusalem , and devoted much of his time and effort to it. He was among those who considered it one of the Palestinian sanctities in the occupied city. He served as Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees for a transitional period and remained Secretary of this Board until his death. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Institute adjacent to the University.
Death [ edit ]
He died on the evening of Saturday, November 22, 2008 , following a severe heart attack at the age of 63.
The Israeli occupation forces refused him entry into the city of Jerusalem , to pray over him in Al-Aqsa Mosque under security pretexts, and he was buried in the town of Al-Eizariya , on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem .
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