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Yousef Ḍiya’ Bāshā al-Khalidī ) was a prominent Ottoman Empire politician.¹ He was born in 1829 in Jerusalem and represented the city in the Ottoman Parliament of 1877. Al-Khalidi played a key role in the opposing political factions established to prohibit the Ottoman Empire's attempts to violate the constitution. He also wrote the first Kurdish - Arabic dictionary. In 1899 he wrote a letter to the Zadok Kahn, the chief rabbi of France, in which he said, "The idea itself is natural, fine and just. Who can challenge the rights of the Jews in Palestine? Good Lord, historically it is really your country. What a wonderful spectacle that will be when a people as resourceful as the Jews will once again be an independent nation, honored and complacent, able to make its contribution to needy humanity in the field of morals, as in the past." To this letter he received a reply from the leader of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl. He died in 1907.²

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The opening as it stood in 2005

Yousef Dia Pasha Al-Khalidi ( Arabic يوسف ضيا باشا الخالدي) 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 . Al-Khalidi played a key role in the opposing political factions established to prohibit the Ottoman Empire's attempts to violate the constitution. He also wrote the first Kurdish - Arabic dictionary. v t e

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Yousef Dia Pasha al-Khalidi ( , Yousef Ḍiya’ Bāshā al-Khalidī ) 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. Al-Khalidi played a key role in the opposing political factions established to prohibit the Ottoman Empire's attempts to violate the constitution. He also wrote the first Kurdish - Arabic dictionary.

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Arab Jerusalemite and Ottoman politician Yusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi (1829–1906; , Yousef Ḍiya’ al-Dīn Bāshā al-Khalidī ) was a prominent Ottoman politician and mayor of Jerusalem in the years 1870–1876, 1878–1879, and 1899-1906.

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Arab Jerusalemite and Ottoman politician (1842–1906) Yusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi (1842–1906; , Yousef Ḍiya’ ad-Dīn Bāshā al-Khalidī ) was a prominent Ottoman politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem during several non-consecutive terms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Arab Jerusalemite and Ottoman politician (1842–1906) Yusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi ( Arabic : يوسف ضياء الدين باشا الخالدي , Yousef Ḍiya’ ad-Dīn Bāshā al-Khalidī ; 1842–1906) was a prominent Ottoman politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem during several non-consecutive terms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al Khalidi served as mayor of Jerusalem from the years 1870 to 1876, 1878 to 1879, and 1899 to 1906. He was an elected member of the first Ottoman parliament, and he represented Jerusalem. He was also a governor, translator, professor and prolific writer. As an Ottoman patriot and an active participant in the reform of the system following Egyptian withdrawal from Syria, Khalidi was proud of his Jerusalem heritage, and was a relentless reformer of the Ottoman system from within, rather than a precursor of Arab, or Syrian independence from the Ottomans.

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