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'''Nir Barkat''' was elected Mayor of Jerusalem in November 2008. He is a high-tech entrepreneur millionaire and a secularist.
 
'''Nir Barkat''' was elected Mayor of Jerusalem in November 2008. He is a high-tech entrepreneur millionaire and a secularist.
  
He rejects the idea that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state and has supported controversial proposals for an area in the Palestinian East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan to be turned into an archaeological park.<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/nir_barkat/index.html Nir Barkat], New York Times, accessed 19 Sept 2012</ref>
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He rejects the idea that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state and has supported controversial proposals for an area in the Palestinian East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan to be turned into an archaeological park.<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/nir_barkat/index.html Nir Barkat], New York Times, accessed 19 Sept 2012</ref> Barkat is also Honorary Chairman of the [[Jerusalem Foundation]].
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==Affiliations==
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*[[Jerusalem Foundation]] | [[World Zionist Organization]] rep on the board of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]]
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Latest revision as of 08:54, 1 March 2019

Nir Barkat was elected Mayor of Jerusalem in November 2008. He is a high-tech entrepreneur millionaire and a secularist.

He rejects the idea that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state and has supported controversial proposals for an area in the Palestinian East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan to be turned into an archaeological park.[1] Barkat is also Honorary Chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation.

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  1. Nir Barkat, New York Times, accessed 19 Sept 2012