British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 1048

Appendix 'B' (contd.) .


3. The Awqf Commission*.
Chairman:
Mr. R. Newton, Assistant Secretary.
Sheikh Hueameddin Eff. Jarallah, M.B.E.
Wasfi Eff. Anabtawi, Inspector, Department of Education.

Following the dismissal of Haj Amin Eff. al Husseini from his offices of Chairman of the Supreme Moslem Council and of the General Awqaf Committee, the Defence (Moslem Awqaf) Regulations 1937 were promulgated. These Regulations empowered the High Commissioner to appoint a Commission composed of a. Chairman and two members to control and manage the Moslem Awqaf in Palestine. The Regulations also provided that all funds, securities, cash and deposits appertaining to or deposited on behalf of or vested in the Supreme Moslem Council and the General Awqaf Committee on behalf of the Moslem Awqaf should be transferred to and vested in the Commission appointed by the High Commissioner.

In July 1945 the composition of the Awqaf Commission appointed under the Defence (Moslem Awqaf) Regulations 1937 was changed from one British chairman, one British member and one Arab Moslem member to a. British chairman and two Arab Moslem members.

Members:
Chairman :

4. The Bearer Bonds Board.

Mr. R. Scott, C.M.G.,

Financial Secretary (ex officio).

Mr. D. W. Gumbley, C.B.E., I.S.O., Director of Bond Issues (ex officio).

Mr. Daniel Auster, 0.B.E., of Jerusalem.

Dr. A. Barth, General Manager, Anglo-Palestine Bank Ltd.

Mr. I. Ben-Zvi, M.B.E., President, Va'ad Leumi. Mr. Henry Bourla, Director, Palestine Discount Bank Ltd., Tel Aviv.

Mr. J. F. Cade, Local Director, Barclays Bank (D.C. & 0.).

Mr. G. E. Dent, Regional Manager, Ottoman Bank. Dr. Fred Dunkels, Director, I. L. Feuchtwanger General Commercial Bank, Tel Aviv.

Dr. Yousef Haikal, Chairman, Municipal Commiesion, Jaffa.

Mr. Mordechai Pinhaa Hassoun, Anglo-Palestine Bank, Tel Aviv.

Mohd. Eff. Younis El Husseini, Manager, Arab National Bank, Jerusalem.

Mr. M. Jaffee, Palestine Corporation Ltd., Jerusalem.

Mr. Shabete.i Levy, Chairman, Municipal Commission, Haifa..

Mr. R. C. Loewi, General Manager, Jacob Japhet and Co., Ltd., Jerusalem.
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* Vide pages 003•006.
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